Baldur’s Gate 3 is finally exiting Early Access this week, but those who plan to jump in for the RPG’s official launch should brace themselves for what could be a lengthy download process. According to the minimum and recommended requirements for Baldur’s Gate 3 that Larian Studios (Divinity: Original Sin 2) posted on its official website, players will need 150 GB of available storage space for the new game, and what’s more, there is no pre-loading possible through Steam. That said, NVIDIA has confirmed that the game will be launching on Thursday, August 3 with DLSS 2 and DLAA.
Baldur’s Gate 3 Features
- Containing more dialogue than three times all three Lord of the Rings books combined, the script for Baldur’s Gate 3 contains over 2 million words
- With over 170 hours of cinematics, twice the length of every season of Game of Thrones combined
- 7 playable protagonists each with their own rich stories, personalities, desires, and objectives, as well as a best-in-class Character Creation system for custom characters
- Play as one of 11 playable races & 31 subraces, with multiple body types
- 12 classes and 46 subclasses, compared to Divinity: Original Sin 2’s 10 “schools of spells”
- Over 600 spells & actions (excluding upcasts), compared to Divinity: Original Sin 2’s 225 player spells & actions
Baldur’s Gate 3 System Requirements
Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit Processor: Intel I5 4690 / AMD FX 8350
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 970 / RX 480 (4GB+ of VRAM)
- DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 150 GB available space
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor: Intel i7 8700K / AMD r5 3600
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia 2060 Super / RX 5700 XT (8GB+ of VRAM)
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 150 GB available space
On PC, get the definitive experience with a GeForce RTX graphics card, or play with GeForce RTX power in the cloud using GeForce NOW. Whichever way you play, you can max out graphical quality with NVIDIA DLAA, or crank up the frame rate with NVIDIA DLSS 2. In our benchmarks, GeForce RTX 40 Series desktop graphics cards increased their performance by an average of 93% when activating DLSS.
Thanks to DLSS 2, most GeForce RTX 40 Series gamers –and those with comparable cards– can play Baldur’s Gate 3 at 4K, with every setting maxed, at over 60 frames per second. And on GeForce NOW, Ultimate Members can use the power of GeForce RTX 4080 cloud GPUs to play at a flawless 4K 120 FPS/120 Hz on compatible devices.
