I’m using medium settings with a few (clouds, fog) low ones. FSR is off for now, I did test it briefly on Ultra Quality and did not really notice any blurrong )though it was a brief test) The FPS I’m getting is mostly above 30 but varies a lot inbetween 25-40 (40 is my refresh rate cap).
The controls are easy to get used to and cover all the functions well. Only 4 hours into the game but really enjoying it so far.
How’s everyone finding the performance to be like after the inital few hours?
I streamed it initially just to see how playable it is and I’m really impressed by the controls (especially cos the store page doesn’t mention controller support).
It’s also been perfectly readable, don’t feel like I’m squinting at text or the min map.
Definitely a chill way to play, I really thought it would feel too crowded or too small on the decks screen.
Motion controls? What do you use them for
Im playing on PC and streaming to the deck. Loving it about 12 hours in. After initially playing on the PC with KB/M I thought it might be a bit shit with a controller, but inward wrong. Plays great, looks great, and is a fun game.
Ill probably load it onto the deck itself eventually, but for the time being streaming is suiting me just fine.
I haven’t bought it yet but I’ll probably stream it from my PC as well since it’s turn based and latency isn’t much of an issue. Didn’t even think of it until I read this comment.
Now I just need to beat the witcher 3 so I can start BG.
This is my biggest fear with BG - that I’ll be sucked in. I’m probably 90% through a playthrough of W3 (after several abandoned starts) and now I kind of don’t want to go do the final battle because I enjoy the game/setting/storytelling. I realy need to just finish it off as I’m somewhat OP for where I am (haven’t done more than dipped briefly into the expansions). I don’t want it to end, but I’m also avoiding starting other games as I’m worried I won’t come back and finish it. lol
That’s literally my exact situation lmao
I’m impressed by the game. But my character models are blurry when not in curscenes.its a bit distracting
My suggestion would be to limit your framerate to 30FPS in-game and then set AMD FSR to Ultra Quality. Still some bluriness but it worked better for me.
I’ll give that a shot thank you
I play on high and my FPS hover around 30 with a few dips here and there.
It’s slightly offtopic, but does anyone know if there’s a dedicated baldur’s gate sub? I’ve been getting some weird glitches and want to see if anyone else is getting them.
It seems good enough on Steam Deck - I set it to 30FPS because I’m playing on a PC which barely meets the system requirements and transferring the saves using Steam Cloud servers. The PC can only hit 30FPS most of the time, and even when I try to reduce graphical settings I can’t get a consistent 60FPS.
The walking using the analog stick on the controller is pretty interesting because on PC you have to click places to move there. I like that we can do that. Though we’re restricted to a radial menu to do attacks and stuff, which I’ll have to get used to if I start any battles on the Steam Deck. So far I did all my battles on the PC.
You can also click-and-drag to emulate using a joystick to move when playing on keyboard + mice controls
Do I need to install it as an external, with GOG or something? Or can it come straight from steam?
This depends on where you bought it. If on Steam, you just download it directly from Steam.
If on GOG, I do believe you will need Heroic launcher to actually be able to download the game to your Steam Deck.
I actually refunded it. I didn’t like the setting. it’s just not for me.
Didn’t like the setting as in the location the game took place in? Or setting as in the default settings profile of the game for steam deck?
The game is quite a lot, so understandable if it’s not for everyone.
yeah the location, the atmosphere. I generally don’t play these type of games so I probably should’ve never considered it. But all my friends were playing it so I tried it.
Curious what your normal bag is? Maybe there’s something similar but with a theme/setting that’s your speed. :)
I always played shooters. Recently I played assassin’s Creed and the Witcher series. So it’s fairly general and main stream I think.
I am running everything at lowest settings, except shadows which are the second lowest setting, and I am using TAA (or was it SMAA I don’t remember) and I am using a replacement DLL file that replaces the DLSS with AMD FSR 2.2.1, FSR is set to scale 1.5 (means the internal resolution is rendered at 75% of native resolution, but I added AntiAliasing before FSR)
I also lock the game to 30fps,
This should not run at max power draw from the system on a chip, I’d rather prefer 15-30% more battery life than fancier graphics.
I wish I could get medium textures, but at least while using FSR (tried with FSR1 also) there is not enough VRAM on the steamdeck to fit medium textures. I think when I tested medium textures, a few textures suddenly popped up to medium quality, but most just stayed at low.
I’ve only played through Act1, just treated it as a tutorial with an origin character, and now I am playing through Act1 again with a custom character. (I borrowed a friends GOG version, but now I bought the game on steam, and I copied over my GOG saves to my desktop but I chose not to put them back on the steam deck in the steam versions wine prefix)
I hope they improve the CPU usage issues in Act 3 before I get there. I suspect it’s mostly unfixable, maybe I will need to play the game at 20 or 25 fps in Act 3, I don’t know. I am in no hurry to beat the game, I am a family guy and I just get to play a bit here and a bit there, so the steam deck’s sleep function is a
godGabeN send. I would not be able to play a game like this at this point in my life if it were not for that, and it was the main reason I bought a steam deck.
