Larian Studios has made plenty of changes and tweaks to Baldur’s Gate III throughout its four years in Early Access. Many of these changes were made to give gamers the best experience possible. With it being in Early Access for such a long time, the studio also shared one major change when they announced the game’s official release date during Sony’s State of Play, which is the minimum system requirement for the PC version.
The reason for the increase in system requirement was explained at the very bottom of the game’s Steam news page, “One last thing: Baldur’s Gate III‘s graphical fidelity and complexity has improved quite a bit as it’s grown throughout Early Access. We’ve been keeping an eye on its minimum system requirements, and as the game nears release we’ve raised the minimum system requirements listed on Steam to better reflect the realities of the launch version.”
Welp! Time to throw my current PC away! | Larian Studios
If you want a more detailed look at the changes, we have listed them below:
Minimum Requirements:
| Old | New | |
| Processor | Intel i5-4690 / AMD FX 4350 | Intel I5 4690 / AMD FX 8350 |
| Memory | 8GB RAM | 8GB RAM |
| Graphics | NVIDIA GTX 780 / AMD Radeon R9 280X | NVIDIA GTX 970 / RX 480 (4GB+ of VRAM) |
| Storage | 70 GB available space | 150 GB available space |
Recommended Requirements:
| Old | New | |
| Processor | Intel i7 4770k / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X | Intel i7 8700K / AMD Ryzen 5 3600 |
| Memory | 16GB RAM | 16GB RAM |
| Graphics | NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB / AMD RX580 | NVIDIA 2060 Super / RX 5700 XT (8GB+ of VRAM) |
| Storage | 70 GB available space | 150 GB available space |
I wonder what new CPU and Graphics Card I can get with these… | Larian Studios
Last but not least, your PC will also need to be running on Windows 10 64-bit with DirectX 11 support to play the game. So far, Larian Studios hasn’t made any mention of official support for the Steam Deck but we will just have to wait and see if it actually gets certified for the handheld or not.
