Shortly after our main Baldur's Gate 3 content 'dropped' last week, I noticed a range of comments suggesting that the f…
Shortly after our main Baldur's Gate 3 content 'dropped' last week, I noticed a range of comments suggesting that the further you played into it, the more the performance characteristics changed. Early access veterans wanted more specific testing of the third act in particular and thanks to a game save bestowed upon us by Twitter user DarknessFX, we had access to a 99-hour save and were ready to dive into some stress test performance testing.
If you're looking to see high-end and mainstream CPUs put through their paces in Baldur's Gate 3's most challenging area, check this out. This is a top-tier processor but the impact to performance is frankly disastrous on something like the mainstream Ryzen 5 3600. Performance drops by 50 percent off the bat, but frame-times are so, so much worse. While the 12900K definitely has some frame-time spikes and some jitter to it, the Ryzen 5 3600 is much worse off, where nearly every other frame rendered shows a variance in length that is visible to the naked eye.
So, the calls to examine Act Three in particular were justified. Baldur's Gate 3 just runs plain worse - but it is explainable worse as there's a lot more AI on-screen, amplifying CPU limitations. And there's not much you can do about it either. At the absolute lowest settings, one can see how the average performance is lifted by just around 14 percent.
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