Baldur's Gate 3 PS5 - No Stable 60FPS - Performance vs Quality Mode - 30FPS vs 60FPS - Tech Review

[John Elden Ring]

TL;DR

- Quality mode: 1440p, targets 30 FPS
- Performance mode: Also looks 1440p but targets 60 FPS
- Quality mode: 30 FPS, can drop below target.
- Performance mode: Lots of drops, can drop below 30 as well. Has lots of screen tearing.
- VRR fixes tearing as long as the game is in VRR range
- Visual quality between Quality and Performance looks same.
- Load times: Fast travel took 43~ seconds.

0:00 We have 2 different Modi
0:34 Framerate Test 60FPS & 30FPS
4:02 Screen Tearing in Performance Mode
4:57 VRR is working
5:45 Quality vs Performance - Visual difference
7:15 Loading Times
8:04 Summary

 

[Shmunter]

Wow that sucks frankly. Not much going on here, yet this sort of performance indicates poor code.

 

[anonpuffs]

Ya'll should play this at 30 fps, the game is one of those that doesn't really benefit from higher fps

*edit* oof 43 seconds to load, that's pretty awful

 

[JAHGamer]

Wow, that performance mode is really bad. This game runs pretty well on mid ranged PCs so I don't understand why PS5 is struggling like this ? And the load times are even worse than on my PC with a PCIE gen 3 NVME. Should've been delayed imo.

 

[Vertigo]

Well that’s a bit disappointing. Hoping it gets better with updates since it’s going to be a bit before I give this a shot.

 

[Sircaw]

That is extremely disappointing, especially about the load times.

43 seconds to fast travel, on a ps5 SSD, come on ffs, that's simply not good enough.

 

[Cool hand luke]

No wonder they can't release it for Xbox if this is the state they're launching on PS5 in. Tbh I haven't noticed any problems yet. The gameplay doesn't benefit from higher frames and I'm not doing any fast traveling yet.

 

[Remember_Spinal]

I’ve been playing it all day and its been fine. The longest and mostly only loading screen is when you load a save. I haven’t had any screen tearing or major dips either.

 

[anonpuffs]

That is extremely disappointing, especially about the load times.

43 seconds to fast travel, on a ps5 SSD, come on ffs, that's simply not good enough.

So I timed it on my PC, there are major loads and minor loads, major loads usually happen on startup and when you load your save game after starting the game, those take like 30-35s. But the ones later are like 15-20s, or even shorter when fast traveling between places that are close. I think that 43s load will be a worst case scenario for PS5, but it definitely is a bit too long. I guess it'll dissuade people from savescumming too much.

 

[Kokoloko]

Seems shit. Games like God of War, Sekiro, Horizon etc can run at 60fps with fasted paced combat. Surely this should.
Plus Fast travel takes seconds in other games.… 20second+ is not acceptable

 

[Maverick]

Glad that I bought it on PC.

 

[SLB1904]

Not well optimised for sure. I hope they put some patches out

 

[Gamernyc78]

 

[TubzGaming]

Threads Merged

 

[Bryank75]

Exactly why we need a PS5 Pro... proof is already right infront of us.

 

[Bryank75]

Threads Merged

You're the best @TubzGaming

 

[Darth Vader]

Exactly why we need a PS5 Pro... proof is already right infront of us.

No we don't. Game is not well optimised, that's it. The loading alone tells you that.

 

[Bryank75]

No we don't. Game is not well optimised, that's it. The loading alone tells you that.

Well, of course it hasn't been optimized fully but I still believe there is a great place in the market for the Pro.

 

[BroodCorp]

Good to know. Was on the fence but in no real rush to play this despite the critical reception.

 

[Killer_Sakoman]

Exactly why we need a PS5 Pro... proof is already right infront of us.

Yeah, but seeing games like HFW, GOWR, RE4. I am not sure why these other games have problems!