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Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Hearing reports that Baldur's Gate 3 is totally unplayable in Act 3 on Steam Deck.

This is again why I keep saying people doing "Best Settings" guides are a load of rubbish, because it's always from people who haven't actually played it through.

Also shows Valve need to improve Deck Verified / Playable to truly take into account performance through longer games - which clearly many times they are not.

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Thomas Lemarchand

@gamingonlinux Act 3 is more demanding on the GPU ? I'm not there yet 🙃

Joseph Leeder

@gamingonlinux Thank you for the continued updates on this. I have been waiting on Baldur's Gate 3 for as much as I want to leap in I dearly hoped it would be a scalable fit for the Steam Deck. Hope that FSR 2 manages to cover some of the shortfall when implemented and Larian are able to optimise a bit more. Know it will be worth the wait where ever I end up playing it but portability would truly be magic.

Richard Devine 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@gamingonlinux Verified not requiring any actual playing of the game remains a joke

thomholwerda

@gamingonlinux I've heard act 3 is problematic as a while. It didn't get the benefit of the long early access period.

It makes me think once again a lot of reviewers didn't play the whole thing. 🙃

Mitsunee | 光音

@gamingonlinux mhmm testing that everything still works on latest proton for NieR Automata would be a good excuse to play that game again... I mean my last playthrough was on proton 4.x iirc 😹

cesarb

@gamingonlinux I had expected that the popularity of the Steam Deck would mean that game developers would test on it during development, making it a useful baseline for the amount of computing power a game requires. I guess we're unfortunately still far from that ideal.

Mobile Suit Golem

@gamingonlinux
Act 3 is when you get to Baldurs Gate correct? I've made it to lower city and can confirm that my performance takes a huge dip in the more populated/complex areas. I imagine the deck gets hit much harder.

spikederailed

@gamingonlinux I wish protonDB would give you the option to filter steam deck and non-steam deck reports.

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