Baldur’s Gate 3 Best Graphics Settings Guide

In this guide, we will show you, how you can Boost FPS and the Best Graphics Settings for Baldur’s Gate 3. These tweaks will hopefully enable you to enjoy the game in all its glory.

It will also increase performance and bump up the Frame Rates by some margin. Make sure you are meeting the minimum system specs for Baldurs’ Gate 3.

Also, refer to my test rig to get a better idea of how you can do the best settings for the game. For the entire information, read on…

Baldur’s Gate 3 Best Graphics Settings Guide

Baldur’s Gate 3 Graphics Settings (In-game)

These are the best Baldur’s Gate 3 Graphics settings for the shown system specs:

Fullscreen Display – Native – I seldom never change this to any other setting unless the performance drop is significant.

Resolution – native – Same reason as the above.

Display Mode – Fullscreen – Having this on borderless settings can help you in ALT-Tabbing quickly. But Fullscreen gives the most performance.

Vsync Mode – Disabled – If you face screen tearing or jittery graphics, turn this ON.

Frame Rate cap – Enabled – Cap this to the native refresh rate of the monitor if you face FPS fluctuations or screen tearing.

Frame Rate – Put monitor refresh rate

Model Quality – Medium – A good balance between performance and visual quality of models.

Instance Distance – Low

Texture Quality – High – This helps with the quality of rendered textures. Keep this high unless you are facing major FPS drops.

Texture Filtering – Anisotropic x16

Lighting Quality – Medium

Shadows – Off/ON for better Visual Quality [suggested by gamertagzero user Shadow]

Light Shadows – Off

Shadow Quality – Low

Anti-aliasing – SMAA

Ambient Occlusion – Off

Depth of Field – None

God Rays – Off

Bloom – Off

Subsurface Scattering – Off

FPS Boost for Performance

These settings will hopefully boost FPS for Baldur’s Gate 3 and fix crashes, lags, or stutters:

1. Optimizing Windows Settings

Go to the search bar and type “Game Mode”

Open the window and make sure the option is “OFF”

Also, make sure that the “XBOX Gamebar” is set to OFF

In the Captures Tab, Turn off all the options.

2. Updating NVIDIA and AMD Drivers

make sure your respective drivers are up to date and ready to go! These Driver releases can sometimes fix entire lag or stuttering issues.

• Nvidia Drivers
• AMD Drivers

3. Change Windows Graphics Settings

Turn on Hardware Graphics Acceleration from Windows.

To do this, go to the search bar and type “GPU”

Open “Graphics Settings” and Turn on Hardware Acceleration.

4. Game Launch Settings

Go to the game launch window and click on the cogwheel next to it.

• You can turn on both Vulcan and DirectX 11.
• If you face launch issues, switch to “DirectX 11 ONLY”. That should fix the issue.

Baldur’s Gate 3 System Requirements

Make sure you meet the minimum system requirements for the game

WINDOWS

Last Updated on October 22, 2022

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