Popular new roleplaying game Baldur's Gate 3 is available to play on the Mac starting today. The title can be downloaded through the Steam...

TL;DR: System requirements are ranging from M1 to M1 Pro or better Apple silicon chips. The game is priced at $60 on Steam.

    • fer0n@lemm.eeOP
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      1 year ago

      Wait, what? I didn’t know they had newer games as well. Did that change at one point or has it always been this way?

  • afoutopatisa@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Dropping my M2 Air 16GB settings in case it’s useful:

    • All graphic settings at LOW (except textures I have at Ultra w/ anisotropic x16)
    • FSR1 activated at Performance (this is a MUST)
    • U3421WE Ultrawide native res is 3440x1440, I run at 2752x1152
    • Anti-aliasing I have off because I don’t like this blurry stuff
    • Everything else is off
    • Gives stable 40 FPS, sure graphics are not great, but it’s very much playable
    • WhiteHotaru@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      I have the same hardware and play everything at ultra at 2000something x 1440 resolution. I did not measure FPS, but it does not stutter and videos are sharp. This is on the internal display. I have to see how it performs on my 4K display. Any good method to measure FPS?

      • afoutopatisa@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Yeah just open terminal and type /bin/launchctl setenv MTL\_HUD\_ENABLED 1

        I’m curious how you can run it at ultra. Maybe my 3440 ultrawide makes such a big difference?

        • WhiteHotaru@feddit.de
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          1 year ago

          2000somethingx1600 is on the internal Display of that MacBook Air and it might be that my expectations to graphics FPS wise are not very high. Normally I play Civilisation or Kerbal Space Program and one of my most loved games is Master of Orion 1 on a whooping 640x480 pixels. I’ll check later, what FPS I get.

        • WhiteHotaru@feddit.de
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          1 year ago

          Ok. KSP and its 5 SPF gameplay did lower my expectations to modern games, apparently. Looks like I run BG3 around 15 to 25 FPS 🙃 . This is on the internal display. I didn’t test the external one.

    • dontwakethetrees (she/her)@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’m surprised you’re only at medium settings, my M2 Pro is handling 1440p at mostly maxed settings (disabled DOF as it’s too aggressive and only double buffered vsync. I don’t have an FOS readout but it’s pretty good compared to before with Crossover and medium settings.

      Edit: followed the terminal command to show the Metal info and BG3 floats around 45-50fps ingame. Haven’t gone back to Act 3 yet so still not sure how it’d handle it. The FPS is stable enough that as a turn based RPG it’s quite playable.