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Why Baldur’s Gate III is an accidental PS5 console exclusive (www.engadget.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/gaming

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Larian is having trouble fitting Baldur’s Gate III on the Xbox Series S, the lower-priced and lower-powered console in Microsoft’s ninth-generation lineup.

I was looking up more information on why there’s such an issue getting BG3 on Xbox, and found this article with a lot more detail on the topic.

EDIT: The issue isn’t graphics or frame rate; it’s memory. The article goes into detail.

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[–] ono@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I hope this leads game engine developers to improve their optimization skills. Chances are the technique(s) needed here have been around for decades.

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (10 children)

And how would you recommend they optimize a game so they can render it twice in split screen, when the S only has 10 Gb of RAM? Because that’s the issue here.

[–] o_oli@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

To be fair fully maxed out settings on PC It's only using ~4GB for me? I was surprised but that seems to be how it is. I have 32GB and was using roughly half overall on the machine so plenty available.

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