According to the reports on reddit.com, Baldur Gate 3 can crash due to various reasons. However, before diving into the causes, you need to understand why the game crashes. A game can crash when it consumes an excessive amount of system resources. Typically, crashes happen when the game runs out of memory, which can be a result of using high graphics settings. Moreover, you will also face crashes if you have corruption in the extracted game files. After discussing the causes, let’s have a look at some of the best solutions recommended by the affected users on Reddit.com. But before that, make sure you meet the game’s minimum requirement. Otherwise, you will waste your time by following this ultimate guide.
1. Turn off Vsync
Vsync allows users to synchronize the Frame rate of the GPU with the refresh rate. It is especially used to reduce screen tearing, which provides smooth gameplay. According to the affected users, using the Vsync in the Baldur Gate 3 causes crashes. Therefore, we will start troubleshooting by disabling the Vsync feature. To do so, follow the steps:
2. Lower the Graphics Settings
If you are using the high graphics settings, it is possible that your system is not capable of handling it. In this case, you can try to lower the graphics settings. Regardless of having the high specifications, still reduce the graphics settings as the game might not be optimized enough to provide smooth gameplay at high settings. You can use the recommended graphics settings from the below screenshots. To lower the graphics settings.
3. Reinstall Graphics Driver
Outdated graphics drivers have a strong contribution in causing the crashing issues. If you don’t update your GPU drivers, you should definitely install or update to the latest GPU drivers before you move on to the other methods. To reinstall the GPU driver, we use Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU). It is an application that is used to remove the GPU drivers with its registry files. Follow the steps to do so:
4. Switch to Vulkan or DirectX
Vulkan is a library that is used by video games to render real-time 3D graphics applications. It is intended to deliver high performance efficiently. Meanwhile, DirectX is a collection of APIs that are also intended to handle multimedia tasks. So, if you are using Vulkan, switch to DirectX, or if you are using DirectX, switch to Vulkan. To do so, follow the steps: If you are using the Larian Launcher, select Vulkan or DirectX option before launching the game. However, you can also launch the game with Vulkan or DirectX using the launch options on Steam. Launch options are the commands that execute before configuration files. Follow the steps to use Vulkan or DirectX using the launch options.
5. Lock Your FPS
Capping the Frame Rates ensure performance consistency. It provides consistent performance rather than rendering as many frame rates as possible. This can prevent crashes because the GPU and Memory usage will be under control. Therefore, it is recommended to cap your frame rates if you haven’t tried yet.
6. Verify the game files
Regardless of the causes that we discussed, the game could also crash if there is corruption in the game files. Therefore, in this step, we will verify the game files that will restore the corrupted files by downloading and replacing them from the server. Follow the instructions to verify the game files.
7. Update Windows
If you don’t update your Windows from time to time, try updating Windows. This is because the latest applications are incompatible with outdated security features. Therefore, we recommend trying to update Windows to resolve this issue.
8. Enable XMP (Extreme Memory Profiles)
XMP (Extreme Memory Profiles) is an overclocking feature that allows users to run the memory at its intended clock speed, which means you can use the RAM at its best performance. So if your RAM and motherboard support the XMP feature, you should definitely enable this using the following steps:
9. Completely reinstall the game along with the saved game files
You will also face crashes if there is corruption in the saved game files of Baldur’s Gate 3. In this case, you need to delete the Baldur’s Gate 3 folder along with reinstalling Baldur’s Gate 3. Reinstalling Baldur’s Gate 3 will restore the corrupted files, which might fix this issue. To do so, follow the steps: There is a high chance that none of the methods worked for you. It is because Baldur’s Gate 3 is a newly launched game, which means it will take some time to get stable. Therefore, instead of resetting or reinstalling Windows, it is recommended to wait for updates from the developers. However, if you don’t have patience, you can try resetting or reinstalling Windows, which will ensure you there is no problem from your side.
