Baldur's Gate 3 specs

[leman]

I have an M1 Max with 32GB RAM. It runs the game at 4K smoothly, even in act 3. I didn't measure the exact FPS but I don't experience any stutter when playing.

There do seem to be some graphical glitches though, especially with character skin, which can appear somewhat pixelated (lacking a better term).

 

[diamond.g]

I have found that whatever settings the game chooses automatically tend to work well. I've read about animation issues, but have not seen any myself.

 

[slquoue]

But do you have a regular, pro or max chip? And how about RAM?

 

[diamond.g]

But do you have a regular, pro or max chip? And how about RAM?

M1 Max 24C GPU 32GB RAM which is the minimum for the M1 and M2 Max. M3 Max min is 36GB for the little and 48 for the big.

 

[slquoue]

Argh, I really want to know how people with lower spec machines find playing the game.

 

[slquoue]

What Apple chip and RAM do you use to play Baldur's Gate 3? Does it run perfectly?

I'm trying to get as many responses as possible to help me with a decision re which M3 Macbook to buy.

Thanks

 

[kaioshade]

I am currently using a M2 Pro 14", and it runs BG3 pretty well. I use a modest 1920x1200 resolution, medium settings, and usually get a pretty consistent 60 FPS in the game. Makes my laptop heat up something fierce though. I may drop the res to 1280x800 to ease the load a bit. I don't want to drop visual settings below medium though, as the game visuals start to take a pretty bad hit at that point. I may cap it at 30 FPS as well. It's not a fast moving game, so that cap should be acceptable.

 

[TallManNY]

Argh, I really want to know how people with lower spec machines find playing the game.

I play on a base M2 Pro mini and it plays fine on "High" settings. I just started another thread on the AMD Fidelity scaling optimizer which really kicked the FPS up (from 30 to 55 or so).

 

[Nermal]

Argh, I really want to know how people with lower spec machines find playing the game.

I'm on a 2020 iMac (i9, 32 GB, 5700 XT) and the performance is fairly disappointing on higher settings. However, I haven't done too much fiddling: for some reason whenever I change a video setting I then need to quit and relaunch the game (can't find any other reports of this) so it's been too much trouble to try to find the "best" settings, and I probably have the quality set lower than it "needs" to be.

 

[diamond.g]

I'm on a 2020 iMac (i9, 32 GB, 5700 XT) and the performance is fairly disappointing on higher settings. However, I haven't done too much fiddling: for some reason whenever I change a video setting I then need to quit and relaunch the game (can't find any other reports of this) so it's been too much trouble to try to find the "best" settings, and I probably have the quality set lower than it "needs" to be.

What did the game "autodetect" the settings as?

 

[Nermal]

What did the game "autodetect" the settings as?

Sorry, but I dare not let it autodetect again for fear of having to reconfigure everything one setting at a time.

 

[diamond.g]

Sorry, but I dare not let it autodetect again for fear of having to reconfigure everything one setting at a time.

no worries. The porting house claimed that on macOS the auto detect setting should have provided adequate performance (per the MrMacRight YT video). At least on Apple Silicon hardware this is mostly true.