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.
Discussion (5 replies)
Join Discussion →That's odd my early access download is 79 gig. Maybe that's the compressed size? Steam downloads fast so not that worried. I guess if you're on a metered or slower connection that would suck.
Have you played Divinity: Original Sin: 2?
This is one of the few new games that seems like it might interest me. I haven't played either of the Divinity: Original Sin games yet, but I want to at least try the second one before Baldur's Gate 3.
Storage space wouldn't concern me in the least. The game has a lot of content.
Most of the article reads like an ad for NVIDIA's 40-series video cards. BG3 is among AMD's list of FSR-supported titles (per AMD's own site), but I've read that it (FSR 2 specifically) won't be available to players until sometime in early September. I'd be surprised if support for Intel's XᵉSS isn't added at some point as well, but that's just my guess.
Back in my days a .wad file was mere kilobytes. Yes theres textures and whatever but so much on the masssive gb requirements have to be lazyness.
Dude I just played the game... it runs smooth as butter on my system in my sig. NO issues. Load times impressively fast. And the game is objectively beautiful. There is just enough fantasy in the art to keep it thematic. The voice overs you hear from the woman's voice feel all the world like a GM describing and providing encouragement. Really think this game will get it's hooks DEEP in me. :)
Sounds great! Just be mindful of those warnings about Baldur's Gate 3 and "raised standards". ;)
(For those unfamiliar with the reference, the Internet recently <em>raised the bar</em> for stupid concerns. Again.)