Howdy all, here is the obligatory post asking if there are any performance improvements for Baldur’s Gate 3 on Steam Deck after today’s Patch #5. Anyone notice anything?
Been delaying buying the game in hopes that some optimizations might come along… Thanks in advance!!
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This is going to make some people upset but imho this game shouldn’t be verified, performance towards the end of act 2 and then act 3 is very poor and textures take too long to load on characters’ faces during conversations throughout the whole game (including some areas in act 1), it’s impossible not to notice even when you’re fine locking the game at 20 fps. Do yourself a favor and wait until you can experience this the way it was intended, the developers have been working hard on improving the game since launch and I’m sure it will be even better once you’re ready to play it.
I’m still downloading, as it is a big patch. But if the patch notes are to be believed it should be a big improvement, as they are targeting the Xbox Series S. Patch 4 was already pretty good with the addition of FSR 2.
And in case you don’t have much time to play, the performance problems are in the third act, which you should reach in about 80 hours. So depending on your speed and play style there might be another patch coming up before you get there.
I’ve been getting low 20s in the grove raid before the patch, now I get almost consistent 30 with FSR 2 on Quality and alot of settings on medium. Makes the thing actually somewhat playable.
Im all good with this patch on Steamdeck. Most settings on low, textures and animations on medium, fsr 2.0 on balanced. A bit of tweaking on decky plugins and cryo. I had a few missing textures but forcing a loading screen via fast travel fixed it for me.
