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Baldur's Gate 3

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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)

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[–] AProfessional 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bit old but was high end, supports all modern features, has enough vram. Not too bad.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Huh, good to hear! I bought it off a buddy a while back - I'm pretty much a noob to computer builds so I really wasn't sure where it stood in terms of quality

[–] schmidtster 9 points 1 year ago

It’s about on par with a 1060. Was decent at the time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you'd like some advice (these are just quick , easy get you 90% of the way there tools) use passmark for cpu benchmarks and 3dmark for GPU. It'll give you a nice ordered list ranked and everything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Nice, thanks for the recommendations!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, mine still runs all the games I like at 1440p.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Disable the addiction mitigation setting in the menus. It periodically quits out hoping you will take a break.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I'm not gonna lie, you got me with that one. I looked it up because I genuinely couldn't tell if this was a joke or not. Kudos!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It crashes my PC with my 3080ti using up to date drivers if I use direct x. Try using Vulkan, haven't had a BSOD since I switched.

[–] SinkingLotus 2 points 1 year ago

While it doesn't crash often for me, I still have to reset it every two hours or so due to FPS issues. Vulkan runs smoother in my experience. Though there are several moments where it broke certain interactions in the game.

[–] SwedishFool 2 points 1 year ago

Weird, haven't had a single crash with my 3080 with direct x! That said, I'm running the 2nd newest drivers, but I figure that ought to make it more unstable.

[–] EarWorm 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have RX 7900XTX, Ryzen 9 5900X and 32GB of RAM running at 3600. Still crashes regularly. I keep toggling between dx and vulkan, sometimes one works better than the other, haven't found a pattern.

[–] bailey_ 3 points 1 year ago

There's a known issue right now affecting 7000 series AMD GPUs. Mine crashes regularly too, sometimes even bricking the driver. I'm patiently waiting on a fix before playing again. https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-23-8-1

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Had to switch last year because of faulty caps but it held up until then. For anyone not knowing, there are custom/modded up-to-date drivers by NimeZ so you can still enjoy some games, which are whining about too old drivers (FH5 and Lost Ark's easy anti cheat if I remember right). But please make sure to read the guide probably.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey, I run it on the Intel equivalent: the GTX 1060, and haven't had any crashes in the 400+ played hours I've logged (this includes all afk time, and times I fell asleep in my office chair—how do people get accurate playtimes, do they just lie?). Chugs pretty hard in the city, but not bad enough to frustrate me.