At the moment, Larian haven’t given any indication of what kind of performance they’re targeting with their minimum and recommended PC requirements for Baldur’s Gate 3’s early access launch, but judging from their choice of recommended graphics cards, I’d imagine they’ve probably been put together with playing the game at 1920x1080 in mind. Fortunately, there’s nothing overly complicated here. The minimum PC requirements should cover anyone who’s built a PC within the last seven years or so, and the recommended spec has pretty popular components, too, including Nvidia’s GTX 1060, which is still the most widely used graphics card on Steam according to their most recent hardware survey. It’s actually a very similar set of PC requirements to what we saw for both Horizon Zero Dawn and Death Stranding, although the good news here is that, unlike those games, you won’t need a DirectX 12-compatible graphics card in order to play it. As a result, those of you with slightly more vintage GPUs should still be able to play Baldur’s Gate 3’s early access version without much trouble. You will, however, need to be running the 64-bit version of Windows 10, so anyone still hanging onto their ancient copy of Windows 7 will finally need to bite the bullet and upgrade if they want in on Larian’s upcoming RPG. It’s possible these PC requirements may change over time, though, as Larian have said they “might decrease over the course of early access as performance improves.” I’d imagine this statement will only apply to their CPU, RAM and GPU requirements rather than suddenly supporting older operating systems, admittedly, but you never know. One thing you can be sure of, though, is that I’ll be testing the game thoroughly once it comes out in early access on September 30th, seeing exactly what kind of performance you can expect from Baldur’s Gate 3’s current set of PC requirements and how it evolves over time. Watch this space.
