Baldur's Gate 3 System Requirements Lists Emerge, Heavy on Content, Light on the Hardware (2024)

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The Summer's most hotly anticipated game release, Baldur's Gate 3, is playable from August 3. The game's minimum- and recommended system requirements lists have been put out by its developer Larian Studios. We're happy to report that as expected, Baldur's Gate is light on the system requirements, to cater to as broad an audience as Diablo 3, the Spring's hottest RPG release.

Perhaps the steepest system requirement of Baldur's Gate is its disk space. The game calls for 150 GB of SSD storage space, which means it will be packed to the gills with content. The rest of the specs should please you. The minimum system requirements ask for an Intel Core i5-4690 or AMD FX 8350 processor, 8 GB of RAM, a GeForce GTX 970 or Radeon RX 480 graphics card, and Windows 10; so a 10-year old PC should meet the specs. The recommended requirements talk of either an Intel Core i7-8700K or AMD Ryzen 5 3600 processor, 16 GB of RAM, and either an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER or AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics card—so a 4-year old rig should be enough to max out the game.

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#1
ratirt

I only hope the bugs are ironed out. When I got the game (2 years ago was it?) it has had a damn a lot of those but the plot and the game itself was really good. I guess it is time to play now :)
The requirements are very low. They must have fixed the FPS dips since I had those frequently at 4k.

#2
ixi

I hope MP will be good.

#3
mama

"...to cater to as broad an audience as Diablo 3, the Spring's hottest RPG release" Spring 2015 maybe. I think you mean Diablo 4.

#4
AsRock

TPU addict

ixiI hope MP will be good.

Be best played with your wife\GF, or at least 2 people in the same room.

Guess who got burned a lot in DOS1\2 ^^. I just hope the AI don't cheat as much as they did late DOS2.

#5
ixi
AsRockBe best played with your wife\GF, or at least 2 people in the same room.

Guess who got burned a lot in DOS1\2 ^^. I just hope the AI don't cheat as much as they did late DOS2.

Have not played Baldur Gate. Young I was (Yoda style). But have read only positive stufd, we will see when they will release it.

#6
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AsRockBe best played with your wife\GF, or at least 2 people in the same room.

Guess who got burned a lot in DOS1\2 ^^. I just hope the AI don't cheat as much as they did late DOS2.

Discord works well bery well, too. A friend and I have put 100 hours into early access and done everything that early access has to offer. At least for the first act, it seems very polished. Lots of replay value I think.

I'm also not surprised about the storage space requirements. They have an enormous amount of cutscenes created. Gotta put that somewhere

#7
neatfeatguy

Hundreds of hours into multiple playthroughs with so many different builds in DOS2 with my brother in coop and every now and then we'd come across a conversation option or story line we had never seen before. Here's hoping BG3 has a similar world with massive reliability to it. We're anxiously awaiting the official release before we dive into it.

#8
ratirt
AsRockBe best played with your wife\GF, or at least 2 people in the same room.

Guess who got burned a lot in DOS1\2 ^^. I just hope the AI don't cheat as much as they did late DOS2.

I love the divinity original sin 2 game. Damn I played so many times. Funny thing is, never finished. I always lack of time or i dont play for a while (got a newborn 6month now) and when i dont, I feel like starting over is the right choice. :) I need to try Multi player maybe. That might be fun but considering my free time it is better to play single player. I'm gonna end up starting over anyway.

#9
AsRock

TPU addict

ixiHave not played Baldur Gate. Young I was (Yoda style). But have read only positive stufd, we will see when they will release it.

It's just more of what they are good at.

#10
Nephilim666

Oh yes, Diablo Three, the third instalment in the series, only just released.

Baldur's Gate 3 System Requirements Lists Emerge, Heavy on Content, Light on the Hardware (2024)

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Baldur's Gate 3 System Requirements Lists Emerge, Heavy on Content, Light on the Hardware? ›

The game appears to be potentially very CPU heavy, or at least it becomes GPU-bound early at 1080p on a high-end card. So, it will probably end up in our CPU suite. It's also going into our handheld gaming suite because it's lightweight enough that you can play this on decent APUs these days or IGPs.

Is Baldur's Gate 3 CPU or GPU intensive? ›

The game appears to be potentially very CPU heavy, or at least it becomes GPU-bound early at 1080p on a high-end card. So, it will probably end up in our CPU suite. It's also going into our handheld gaming suite because it's lightweight enough that you can play this on decent APUs these days or IGPs.

Does Baldur's Gate 3 have high system requirements? ›

Baldur's Gate 3 isn't the most demanding game there is right now, at least not in terms of processing and graphics power, but it will require you to have quite a bit of storage space available.

Is Baldur's Gate 3 graphically demanding? ›

Is Baldur's Gate 3 hard to run? You can run Baldur's Gate 3 on a relatively low end PC, so long as your graphics card is on equal grounds or better than the AMD Radeon RX 480.

How much storage is needed for Baldur's Gate 3? ›

Storage: 150 GB available space. Additional Notes: Recommended specs can run the game on high or ultra settings. SSD required.

Is Vulkan better than directx 11 for Baldur's Gate 3? ›

Vulkan presents a potential performance increase over DX11 in most cases, though may be slightly less stable for now. We generally recommend you use Vulkan, the default Graphics API. The Vulkan implementation of Baldur's Gate 3 is still in Early Access.

What is the recommended graphics card for Baldur's Gate 3? ›

Baldur's Gate 3 system requirements
MinimumRecommended
CPUIntel Core i5 4690 AMD FX 8350Intel Core i7 8700K AMD Ryzen 5 3600
RAM8GB16GB
GPUNvidia GeForce GTX 970 AMD Radeon RX 480Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
Storage150GB150GB
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Does BG3 look better on PC? ›

Summary. The PC version of Baldur's Gate 3 has better performance and graphics, but the PS5 version still looks impressive and offers the advantage of playing on a larger screen.

What's the hardest game to run on PC? ›

The Most Demanding PC Games
  • Red Dead Redemption 2.
  • Cyberpunk 2077.
  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Next-Gen.
  • A Plague Tale: Requiem.
  • Forspoken.
  • HYPERPC computers. for the most demanding games.

How can I tell if my computer can run Baldur's Gate 3? ›

Here are the Baldur's Gate 3 System Requirements (Minimum)
  1. CPU: Intel Core i5 4690 / AMD FX 8350.
  2. RAM: 8 GB.
  3. VIDEO CARD: Nvidia GTX 970 / RX 480 (4GB+ of VRAM)
  4. DEDICATED VIDEO RAM: 4096 MB.
  5. PIXEL SHADER: 5.1.
  6. VERTEX SHADER: 5.1.
  7. OS: Windows 10 64-bit.
  8. FREE DISK SPACE: 150 GB.

Why does Baldur's Gate 3 crash when loading? ›

If loading still gives an error or crashes, delete the new BG3 folder and rename the original back again (as well as in the Documents folder, if applicable). If a new game in a new profile folder also gives an error or crashes when loading: Try doing a clean boot and then test the game.

Why does Baldur's Gate 3 take up so much space? ›

Constant saving in Baldur's Gate 3 may be the reason you're running out of space on your PC drive. Larian Studios' RPG is a massive game with plenty of player decisions to make, whether that's choice-driven story moments, battle strategies, or looting everything you see, the game saves all of this in your profile data.

Is Baldur's Gate 3 fully playable? ›

It remained in early access until its full release for Windows in August 2023, with versions for PlayStation 5, macOS, and Xbox Series X/S releasing later that year.

Why is Baldur's Gate 3 $60? ›

Larian put BG3 at the $60 price point because they thought that's the most they could get away with. If they'd known in advance it would be a bigger hit than things like Starfield and Diablo IV, they'd have charged more.

Can my graphics card run Baldur's Gate 3? ›

Processors comparable to the Intel Core i5 4690 or AMD FX 8350 will suffice, so long as they're backed up by 8GB of memory. The game isn't demanding when it comes to GPUs either, with developer Larian Studios suggesting the Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 or AMD Radeon RX 480 will be all you'll need.

How do you tell if a game is more CPU or GPU intensive? ›

Generally-speaking, if the game seems like it has a lot going on "behind the scenes" (complex AI, lots of physics calculations, very large amounts of interrelated data, etc.) then it is likely to be CPU-intensive in some way or another (single or multithreaded).

Are new games more CPU or GPU intensive? ›

Both the GPU and CPU are important, but the GPU has a more significant impact in most cases. Modern games are graphically demanding, and the GPU handles all graphics rendering and processing needed to display modern games. In contrast, the CPU's role is on core processing tasks.

What system does Baldur's Gate 3 use? ›

On 5 October 2020, Larian Studios announced the game would be released for macOS in addition to Windows and Stadia. Baldur's Gate 3 runs on Divinity Engine 4.0.

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