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[–] CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I’m really surprised to see Baldurs Gate 3 so high, as I’ve heard it doesn’t run too well on Deck.

I’ve been playing it nonstop on my pc, but don’t want to spend time downloading it on the Deck if it doesn’t run well and devours my battery. Is it better than I’ve been hearing?

[–] brandon@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I play it pretty much exclusively on my Deck and haven’t run into any performance issues that have bothered me. Patch 2 made things noticeably smoother so I expect it to get even better over time. I haven’t hit act 3 yet though and that seems to be where most people have problems in general.

Turning off FSR is a must if you don’t want a blurry mess.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Surprises me as well. I did briefly try it out on Deck but it seemed that my options were either very blurry or very laggy graphics. But still playable I guess if Steam Deck is your only option.

[–] Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

I had the blurinnes only if i enabled TAA, no problems with SMAA, but it still sucks the battery dry and frame rate in act3 was not good. If combat wasnt turn based i'd would not play it on the deck.

[–] Ado@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Just posted my shock too before seeing this comment. I really don’t see how it would work, my game runs so blurry on the deck

[–] Kaldo@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Same with cyberpunk, people can play it on steam deck? I dont think i can play FPS games there at all, less alone on a small screen with 30 fps (at best)

[–] BobVersionFour@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I play it with a keyboard and mouse using my dock work fine mostly no lag otherwise too small a screen for me for that kind of game

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I play it on the Deck and it runs very well for me, that was actually how I played exclusively for the first few weeks. I only ran into problems when trying to do cross-play, as saving between the two is apparently the shittiest experience ever and I just gave up on it. Now I have an exclusively PC playthrough (good-aligned) and Deck playthrough (evil-aligned). The control scheme takes some getting used to, but it’s still really good.

[–] ggppjj@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Cross-save seems to work better now, at least it doesn't sit there trying to sync forever for me.