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PayPalWell this is certainly exciting! Ahead of the release of Baldur's Gate 3, which is going to easily be one of the biggest releases this year, the Director of Publishing at Larian Studios teased playing it on Steam Deck on Twitter (uh, sorry on "X").
Michael Douse (Director of Publishing) said on in a post on X "Playing Baldur’s Gate 3 on Steam Deck is absolutely wild. The quality of models etc really holds up in cinematics. Can’t wait for you to try it" and in a follow-up reply to another user about performance Douse mentioned "We’re aiming for solid 30 on around medium, but optimisation is ongoing. Worth remembering we have cross-save between PC and PS5 ;)".
The good news is that it will also have full controller support at launch as well. However, no split-screen co-op on Steam Deck as that was disabled. While you could hook it up to a bigger screen with a Docking Station, presumably this was done due to the lower power of the Deck.
Picture credit - Michael Douse, Larian Studios
Will you be picking it up? I've yet to hear back about a review key but I'm hoping to give it a run and see just how well it works on Steam Deck and desktop Linux.
You can pre-order it on GOG and Steam. It releases August 3rd.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: HolzkohlenIt would not even fit on my Deck. I still have not upgraded my SSD. I'm looking forward to playing it on Thursday on my regular PC though. Been waiting for it for 4 years now. June 6th 2019 is when they first announced it.
Thankfully the upgrade is pretty painless, watch a video and youll be fine!
Quoting: SchattenspiegelNice, to see them doing some work for the Deck. Hope they'll do the same for desktop Linux.
Still not convinced this is going to be a title for me personally, though. After having a complicated love/hate relationship with D:OS1 I bounced off D:OS2 - like, hard. And given the hype around this one (like D:OS2) it will probably be quite difficult to get an objective assessment of the game anytime soon without actually playing it yourself.
Have both D:OS1 and 2, never could get into either one of them much. BG3, while having some elements of D:OS1/2 has been far better to get into for me, probably because I like dnd and it feels more like a dnd game than D:OS1/2. Hope that made sense, but yes maybe once the crazy first days die down perhaps give it a shot so it doesn't take long to download, as long as you don't take 2 hours in the character generator (looks very possible from what I have seen) it might be worth a try as you say.
Quoting: pageroundThankfully the upgrade is pretty painless, watch a video and youll be fine!On the other hand, don't make the mistakes you always read about, i.e. don't forget to remove the SD card and most importantly – if you manage to strip a screw don't try to use a drill to remove the head and drill through the screen.
Arehandoro Aug 1, 2023
Also I want to buy a new PC for that and cities skylines 2.
OT: I heard X is not continued to be developed any more. Now everything is thrown into Wayland....
Quoting: WoodlandorI have fond memories of playing Baldur's Gate when it first came out.
When I got it home and opened the box and saw it was 5 CDs
That was complete craziness at the time lol
Yeah, Baldur's Gate is a great series of games, I'm actually surprised they made a BG3, I thought that ToB ended things pretty conclusively. It's gonna be interesting seeing a really high level campaign now that CHARNAME is a deity (or at least at the power level of one).
officernice Aug 1, 2023
Quoting: williamjcmA shame the current version of the game doesn't run on AMD GPUs on Linux (except Steam Deck, it seems) if you select the Vulkan renderer, no matter if you use AMDVLK or RADV drivers.
The D3D11 renderer does work, but vegetation has some nasty flickering.
I really hope it'll be fixed for the game's launch.
Aww that sucks. I have to build a new PC to run this game, and I am definitely going to run full AMD.
soulsource Aug 1, 2023
Quoting: officerniceHmm, I can't confirm without the game, but there are reports that look like Vulkan on AMD is working.Quoting: williamjcmA shame the current version of the game doesn't run on AMD GPUs on Linux (except Steam Deck, it seems) if you select the Vulkan renderer, no matter if you use AMDVLK or RADV drivers.
The D3D11 renderer does work, but vegetation has some nasty flickering.
I really hope it'll be fixed for the game's launch.
Aww that sucks. I have to build a new PC to run this game, and I am definitely going to run full AMD.
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