I'm still completely hooked on Baldur's Gate 3, the first time for a while I've been properly firmly sucked into a game and it's set to get some big updates too. Thanks to Valve's effort with Proton, it's working fantastically on desktop Linux and could easily be my GOTY - it's going to take a lot to top this.
You can see my initial release article here, plus the article about it now being Steam Deck Verified — although for Steam Deck you'll really want to wait for September to get the FSR 2.2 upgrade.
So what do Larian have cooking? A lot by the sounds of it.
Firstly, in reply to someone on X (formerly Twitter) asking about changing your custom character during the game Larian's Director of Publishing said "Things are being cooked", so you might eventually be able to re-do your look. Sure would be nice, there's a few things I completely missed when making mine.
The latest is from Larian's Founder and CEO, Swen Vincke, who mentioned a little teaser about upcoming updates: "We're all very enthused by your feedback. It's very rewarding. Our focus now is fixing any issues you report, but we are listening to suggestions. Current roadmap: a) Hotfix 4, b) Patch 1 (+1000 fixes and tweaks), c) Patch 2. The latter will already incorporate some requests."
You can buy Baldur's Gate 3 on Steam and GOG.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: melkemindQuoting: starpolloI'm loving the game so far, I'm about 40 hours in.. but the constant crashes are getting unbearable :/
I haven't seen anyone else on Linux mention these kind of frequent crashes, if anyone has any advice for me I'd very much appreciate it ^^'
Are you using the Vulkan option? I was getting a few crashes (not so often) when using Vulkan. Switching to DX11 stopped it from crashing completely for me. From what I've read, that's a problem on Windows too as their Vulkan implementation is incomplete and buggy.
Aah yeah I'd heard that as well, I've been using DX11 the whole time, I tried switching to Vulkan to see if it'd be better but the game wouldn't launch at all (just got a black screen).
So strange to hear about so many people having no issues, where I'm struggling with all these crashes 😅
michaldybczak Aug 23, 2023
Playing on lowest requirement hardware, this becomes very tedious.
Any idea where to submit that proton bug?
Quoting: starpolloQuoting: melkemindQuoting: starpolloI'm loving the game so far, I'm about 40 hours in.. but the constant crashes are getting unbearable :/
I haven't seen anyone else on Linux mention these kind of frequent crashes, if anyone has any advice for me I'd very much appreciate it ^^'
Are you using the Vulkan option? I was getting a few crashes (not so often) when using Vulkan. Switching to DX11 stopped it from crashing completely for me. From what I've read, that's a problem on Windows too as their Vulkan implementation is incomplete and buggy.
Aah yeah I'd heard that as well, I've been using DX11 the whole time, I tried switching to Vulkan to see if it'd be better but the game wouldn't launch at all (just got a black screen).
So strange to hear about so many people having no issues, where I'm struggling with all these crashes 😅
Aah just to give an update (in case anyone comes and reads about my struggles and wants to know what happened), I ended upgrading my GPU from a Nvidia GTX 1080, to an AMD RX 6750 XT, and I was able to play BG3 for hours with no crashes!
Not to throw shade on the 1080 though, it was a great card, but I'd had it a while and I assume it was just the hardware dying.. either that or some issue with the drivers on my install, but either way, I'm playing with no issues now, and I can finally use Open Source GPU drivers!
michaldybczak Nov 17, 2023
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