Baldur's Gate 3 - Steam Charts
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For context, Larian Studio founder Swen Vincke predicted that the game could reach 100,000 peak concurrent users during its debut period, and that was a fairly optimistic prediction. I work in IT, and really feel for those folks. I hope they designed their infrastructure to scale!

And that’s only Steam, not including GOG, or the influx of PS5 users next month. Let’s take it to 1 million!

      • ThayWiz Gwar@lemmy.worldOPM
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        1 year ago

        I think that depends on what executable you are calling. The default shortcut installed with Steam is to some online steam BS. I switched to using a shortcut directly to “bg3_dx11.exe” but I assume you could do the same with “bg3.exe”, which I assume is Vulcan. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.

        EDIT: Reddit says I’m right:

        Location: “By default it’s C:/Program files/Steam/steamapps/common/Baldur’s Gate 3/bin”

        Versions: “Here you should see both bg3.exe (Vulkan) and bg3_dx11.exe”

        Here’s how to do it directly in Steam, too, if you want: https://eip.gg/bg3/guides/how-to-skip-the-launcher/

        EDIT 2: @Hairyblue commented here: “Thankfully, you can use the launch command --skip-launcher to boot straight into the DX11 version of the game, or use --skip-launcher --vulkan to boot straight into Vulkan.”

        • Skyhighatrist@lemmy.ca
          2·
          1 year ago

          In addition to this the launcher appears to be working properly now, so if you first launch it with the launcher and choose vulkan, then next launch do it with --skip-launcher, it will keep launching the vulkan version. At least it does for me on proton. That wasn’t working when the game first released, but is now.

          When I tried just launching the executable directly, it didn’t recognize my save games. So that’s something to keep in mind for anyone that changes the launch options to the exe file directly.

    • Shiggles@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      1 year ago

      Oh believe me, it was the first thing I looked up after being greeted with the launcher. But good to spread the message, the game is great but god the spam of launchers all over gaming is awful.

      • ThayWiz Gwar@lemmy.worldOPM
        3·
        1 year ago

        Amen. Not sure if the launcher has anything to do with the stats they collect, though. Would be nice to know. But Larian is one of a very few companies I don’t mind hoovering up my data.