It’s been less than a week since it came out technical analysis on Baldur’s Gate 3 from Digital Foundry, where we learned that the game is not extremely ambitious in terms of graphics, but it still looks very good, and most importantly, it is well optimized, so even weaker machines can run it. But it was mainly about the first act, because it is a really long RPG, so when Alex Battaglia subsequently, at the request of the audience, started to testing the third actthe results were very different.
In it, you will look into the city of Baldur’s Gate itself, where there are a lot of NPCs, which is really noticeable in the performance, and your processor will have a lot to do. Interestingly, if you’re standing still, the frames per second are still solid, but once you start moving the camera, the FPS drops by about 20%. Also problematic is the transition to cutscenes, where the game freezes for much longer than in the first two acts.
Source: Digital Foundry
However, the worst part is walking through the city itself, when the frame rate on the powerful Intel Core i9-12900K is around 60 FPS, but the frame time (the time between two frames) is very unstable and often stutters. Moreover, not everyone has such a CPU, so Battaglia also tested a few years older midrange piece Ryzen 5 3600, where the results are significantly worse. The game stays between 30 and 40 frames per second, with the frame time even more unstable and the stutters are huge. And unfortunately, you can’t avoid them even if you lock the frame rate to 30 FPS.
At the same time, Battaglia discovered that the game scales very poorly, at least on Intel processors. Paradoxically, the Core i9-12900K did the best with 8 P-cores turned on without hyperthreading, 8 with hyperthreading, on the contrary, fared the worst. The maximum variant of 8 P-cores with hyperthreading + 8 E-cores also fell behind and was only about 2% better than 6 P-cores without hyperthreading. Baldur’s Gate 3 simply cannot use the cores very efficiently.
Source: Digital Foundry
2023-08-19 07:43:17
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