Baldur’s Gate 3 best graphics settings – One of the most anticipated titles of this year, which is also probably the best RPG of 2020, Baldur’s Gate 3 has finally made its way to the launch day. Considering how much hype this game managed to create since the trailer, I can only imagine the sheer amount of people who are going to play this game.
Now, after seeing Baldur’s Gate 3 for the first time, one would expect the game to have really low requirements. That is not the case, as Baldur’s Gate 3 is a fairly demanding title, and even with the latest drivers there is not much you can do if you have a low-end gaming rig. So, let’s see if it is possible to make this game run for people with low-end graphics cards by tweaking the in-game video or graphics settings and achieve some playable fps.
Baldur’s Gate 3 – Best Graphics Settings to fix FPS Drops
Graphics Settings
User Options
- Resolution: 1920×1080 (16:9) 144 Hz (Depends on the resolution and refresh rate of your monitor actually)
- Display Mode: Fullscreen
- V-Sync: Disabled
- Framerate cap enable: Check
- Framerate cap: 144 (Again, depends on your monitor. Choose 60 is you have a 60 Hz monitor)
Overall Quality
- Overall Preset: Custom
General
- Model quality: Medium (Alters the amount of detail used for geometry. Do not increase this)
- Instance Distance: Low
- Texture Quality: Medium
- Texture Filtering: Anisotropic x4
Lighting
- Light Shadows: On
- Shadow Quality: Low (You will barely look at shadows. So point increasing this)
- Cloud Quality: High
- Animation LOD Detail: High
Post Process
- DLSS: Quality (Enable if you are using a RTX Card)
- AMD FSR 1.0: Off
- Sharpness: 30-40%
- Anti-aliasing: TAA (Choose “None” if the game appears blurred out)
- Ambient Occlusion: Off (Doesn’t affect the game much)
- Depth of Field: None
- God Rays: Check
- Bloom: Uncheck
- Subsurface Scattering: Uncheck
Let’s take a quick look at the settings menu:
Specifications of our PC
Here are the full specifications of our rig:
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600x
- GPU: Zotac GTX 1650 Super
- RAM: 32GB DDR4 3200mhz
- OS: Windows 11 64-bit
- SSD: Samsung 970 EVO 500GB SSD
- Monitor Resolution: 1920×1080
- Driver: GeForce Game Ready Driver v536.67
If you want to find out the best combination of graphics settings for a game, then it is always recommended that you run that game on low-medium-end hardware. There is no point in running benchmarks on gaming rigs with high or enthusiast-level graphics cards. Because let’s be honest, every single game will run smoothly without any issues on a RTX 3080 or a RX 5700 XT.
Benchmark Test Results
Utility used : MSI Afterburner
| Lowest FPS | Average FPS | Maximum FPS |
| 42 FPS | 62 FPS | 109 FPS |
I wouldn’t necessarily call these test results final. I did notice some performance issues while running the game. But I am not sure whether it is a problem with the game or there is something wrong with our system. Don’t worry, more tests are in process at the moment. And I will soon post the final benchmark results.
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Last Updated on August 2, 2023
Shoaib, 30, is a simple guy who loves to play video games, and enjoys new cuisines sporadically. He has been gaming since he was 7 years old, and with an experience of 22 years, under his belt, there is not a single AAA game in this world, that he hasn’t played. Despite being a MBA Graduate he decided to follow his passion. And because of his love for gaming, Frondtech came into existence.