Gaming

I finished my latest Baldur's Gate 3 run, where I used mods to increase the party size and level cap (among others), but it wasn't pretty. For some reason, after getting to Act 3 and rescuing Minsc, the game just didn't want to exist anymore. It would constantly drop frames, until it got down to 2, which is obviously unplayable.

Apparently one of the latest hotfixes, which released in February messed something up and caused some major problems in Act 3 for some people. For me, this happened mainly when I had more than X party members, but only while running around. As I said, this started after getting Minsc, so for a while the game was fine with a party of 11 people, then the frame drops started. For a bit it worked with 8 people, but the more I played in Act 3, the more people I had to leave behind. At the end, even the default 4 almost were too much.

Weirdly enough, in combat everything was fine, no matter how many people there were, so I'd just get to some boss, go back to camp right before, get everyone, and start the fight. Still, some parts were absolute torture. I could play five minutes at most, maybe loot a single small room or talk with one or two people, then I'd have to restart my game. I was thinking about pausing the run and waiting for a patch, but since I was close to the end, and didn't know when and if a patch would release, I just powered through and finished the game. Of course, when I made it to the epilogue and the game crashed one final time, Steam downloaded the hotfix that had been released a couple of minutes earlier.

Anyway, I'm starting another run, this time relatively normal, and going Dark Urge for the first time.