Baldur's Gate 3 Now Available on Mac (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

13 comments fedilink hide all child comments

geteilt von: https://lemm.ee/post/9120083

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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think we're pretty spoiled by the relative silence of these macbook pros. Try playing BG3 on pretty much any pc laptop, and you'll see. On my desktop with a RTX3080, I actually limit it to 60fps otherwise it'll sound like a jet engine. I have a Fractal Design North case with a beefy AIO also, and it's no slouch in the airflow department. The game just gets heavy, especially in certain areas with lots of NPCs.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nice to have some insight from the PC world ^_^

I looked at benchmarks of the game and found some interesting results.

The game runs on my 30 cores M2 Max « as smoothly as » a RTX 4050. But it probably could run like a RTX 4060.

In Blender, my Mac has the same perf as a 6700XT, which has the same perf as the RTX 4060 in BG3.

Blender on Mac is highly optimized by Apple engineers for Apple Silicon, but BG3 is still a Metal 2 game.

I have good hope that Larian will release some improvements patch with the adoption of MetalFX.

Have a nice day!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yep, this game has been long in the works with the mac port, so unfortunately they haven't had the chance to use metal 3 and metalFX. Hopefully they will add at least FSR 2.0 in the future, because 1.0 is pretty bad. I also go back and forth between that gaming pc and an m1 max mbp, and the dlss implementation is a lot better. Still, I do use FSR on the mbp, but I turn on antialiasing to smooth things out.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah FSR doesn’t shine very much here. It kinda works with Ultra Quality + TAA, but anything lower than that makes the whole thing blurry.

It’s also pretty annoying that the game doesn’t seem to be able to remember that I checked TAA and disable it every time I boot.

this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2023

39 points (89.8% liked)

Macintosh Gamers 🖥️🍎 | Gaming on macOS and Mac hardware

582 readers

1 users here now

A community for Mac users to discuss video gaming on macOS and Apple hardware.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]