Larian Studios has released Patch 3 for Baldur’s Gate 3, and shared its complete changelog. According to the release notes, Update 3 improves performance in the Lower City of Act 3. Moreover, it improves overall performance by disabling faraway NPCs with automated overhead dialogues and in-world behaviours.

Additionally, Patch 3 optimizes turn order calculations in combat, how the game handles projectiles and the lighting in the Shadow-Cursed Lands. It also makes several optimisations when moving around the world on controller, and it improves performance in dense crowds.

Overall, this patch should make the game more playable, especially in Act 3. Furthermore, PC gamers can use this DLSS 3 Mod in order to further improve the game’s performance.

You can find the huge changelog for Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 3 here. Below you can also find all of its performance/optimization improvements.

Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 3 Performance & Optimization Improvements

• Made many optimisations to make sure we reach our quality FPS target in most, if not all, regions of the game, stabilising 30 FPS on Quality Mode. We’re continuing to work hard at stabilising 60 FPS.
• Improved performance while previewing shoving or pushing spells (e.g. Thunderwave).
• Improved performance by disabling faraway NPCs with automated overhead dialogues and in-world behaviours.
• Made several optimisations when moving around the world on controller.
• Improved performance when updating the cursor when preparing a spell.
• Improved performance in dense crowds.
• Also improved character loading times.
• Improved minimap performance.
• Improved performance in the Lower City.
• Optimised the Level Up system.
• Optimised turn order calculations in combat.
• Also optimised how the game handles projectiles.
• Optimised the lighting in the Shadow-Cursed Lands.
• Stopped calculating whether a save has missing mods unless it is selected in the UI.
• Stopped loading icons from Character Creation if the UI isn’t open.

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