Less than a week later, Digital Foundry’s Baldur’s Gate 3 technical analysis came out, from which we learned that the game is not too ambitious in terms of graphics, but still looks very good, and most importantly, well optimized. so that even weaker machines can run it. But it was mostly about the first act, because it’s a really long RPG, so when Alex Battaglia subsequently started testing the third act at the request of the audience, the 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 terms of performance, and your processor will have something to do. Interestingly, if you stand still, the FPS is still stable, but as soon as you start moving the camera, the FPS drops by about 20%. Also problematic is the transition to cutscenes, where the game freezes much longer than in the first two acts.
Worst of all, however, 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 processor, so Battaglia also tested a few years older mid-gen Ryzen 5 3600, where the results are significantly worse. The game stays between 30 and 40 fps, with frame times even more erratic and stuttering huge. And, unfortunately, you can’t avoid them even if you lock your framerate at 30 FPS.
At the same time, Battaglia found that the game scaled very poorly, at least on Intel processors. Paradoxically, the Core i9-12900K with 8 enabled P-cores without hyperthreading showed itself best of all, 8 with hyperthreading, on the contrary, showed themselves the worst. The maximum variant of 8 P-cores with hyperthreading + 8 E-cores was also behind and was only about 2% better than 6 P-cores without hyperthreading. Baldur’s Gate 3 simply can’t use cores efficiently.
Source : Zing
