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Baldur's Gate 3 Now Available on Mac

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

Popular new roleplaying game Baldur's Gate 3 is available to play on the Mac starting today. The title can be downloaded through the Steam...

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

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The game is also available on GOG for those that don’t want any kind of DRM on it.

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- Wait, what? I didn’t know they had newer games as well. Did that change at one point or has it always been this way?
  
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  It's been this way for years, I think more than a decade. At least The Witcher 2 and 3 were available on GOG when they released.
  
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  At one point (2016 I guess) they started selling new games, also.
  
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  I second this 👀
  
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  I got No Man’s Sky on release day from GOG back in 2016 (now if only they would get the Mac version), so it has been at least that long.
  
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  Just played the game with friends 2 on gog and 2 on steam. Just make sure to have Larian account and have host generate the direct connect code.
  
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Completely worth every penny

I have a M1 Pro and it plays decently on medium settings compared to my desktop.

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- It runs alright on my 2021 M1, but I play it via GeForce Now these days, where it really screams.
  
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  I want to signal boost that GeForce now option! It looks gorgeous at everything ultra, although it’s not really necessary for the game to make an impression. But it is nice to look at via GFN ✨
  
  But I realize that we probably shouldn’t lean too heavily on that option, lest we discourage devs from actually making native Mac ports…
  
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- I’m surprised you’re only at medium settings, my M2 Pro is handling 1440p at mostly maxed settings (disabled DOF as it’s too aggressive and only double buffered vsync. I don’t have an FOS readout but it’s pretty good compared to before with Crossover and medium settings.
  
  Edit: followed the terminal command to show the Metal info and BG3 floats around 45-50fps ingame. Haven’t gone back to Act 3 yet so still not sure how it’d handle it. The FPS is stable enough that as a turn based RPG it’s quite playable.
  
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  See this comment for a readout: https://lemmy.world/comment/3783578
  
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Dropping my M2 Air 16GB settings in case it's useful:

All graphic settings at LOW (except textures I have at Ultra w/ anisotropic x16)

FSR1 activated at Performance (this is a MUST)

U3421WE Ultrawide native res is 3440x1440, I run at 2752x1152

Anti-aliasing I have off because I don't like this blurry stuff

Everything else is off

Gives stable 40 FPS, sure graphics are not great, but it's very much playable
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- I have the same hardware and play everything at ultra at 2000something x 1440 resolution. I did not measure FPS, but it does not stutter and videos are sharp. This is on the internal display. I have to see how it performs on my 4K display. Any good method to measure FPS?
  
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  Yeah just open terminal and type /bin/launchctl setenv MTL\_HUD\_ENABLED 1
  
  I'm curious how you can run it at ultra. Maybe my 3440 ultrawide makes such a big difference?
  
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I never play on Mac M1, should I? I have a ps5, how would performance compare to that? If m1 might actually have comparable performance I might need to get into it and have games streamed using steamlink to my tv.

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- Currently it doesn't really matter how good performance is on a mac there are very few games supported. This will probably change in the future with the new game porting toolkit tho.
  
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- I can’t imagine anyone buying a Mac specifically for gaming. Anyone who’s into gaming will be on windows, but if you’re not super into it or it’s simply more convenient to play on a MacBook it’s definitely nice to have.
  
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- Mac is pretty far behind Windows and Linux in terms of gaming. But there are signs that Apple is slowly waking up on that front.
  
  Whether you want to play it on Mac or PS5 imo primarily comes down to whether you want to play with a controller or a M+KB
  
  Steam will refund you as long as you've played for less than a couple of hours, so there's no harm in buying the game and doing a little test before committing one way or the other.
  
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Absolutely insane that it’s running better on my M2 MacBook than my 3070 desktop

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  Yeah I should probably add that it's the 12-Core M2 Pro. I'm pretty close to the top of the line for MacBooks right now but I am still very impressed that it delivers. Not to mention how quiet the fans are; if they run at all.
  
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- What CPU do you have for your desktop? Baldur's Gate is a bit more CPU intensive, but that's still some crazy optimizations.
  
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  Uh funny timing but my desktop has been getting worse and worse recently until it just became unusable. Just opened it up to find that the liquid cooling for the CPU was leaking… I might have been neglecting my PC for a while. hopefully performance will be better once I get this fixed (and cleaned out)
  
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Nice

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