A level 12-20 D&D adventure would pose major new design challenges.

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    I installed the game to check it out. I have a very busy week so I just played through the tutorial section at the start of the game.

    Im not saying it doesn’t look go, but why does this game have such high hardware requirements?

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      The minimum requirements are a freaking RX 480. How is that high? I can literally max it out with my 6650 XT on 1080p.

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          The biggest requirement, imo, is probably just having an SSD for the game. There’s a LOT of pop ins and textures that just don’t load until a few minutes later. It does have a “slow HDD mode” but it hasn’t really done much from what I can see.

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            That’s pretty normal for modern AAA games. There’s just a lot of texture streaming going on and that requires a lot of bandwidth that HDDs don’t have. You can be lucky if it is just blurry textures & pop in and not also strong stuttering.

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              I’ve gotten away with even harder to run games on a HDD but even if it is on an SSD, I’ve found it to be inconsistent plus only BG3 acts up compared to everything else I have going.

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      It does run on steam deck (though at lower settings with FSR to get 40 mostly stable).

      Open world games with some complexity generally take a decent amount of power. You have to load a good number of surrounding objects at any given time, with a pretty wide view on the zoomed out view. There are also other characters/animals doing stuff, environmental effects, and a healthy dose of passive checks on the environment against various traits of your party to see if your character identifies any of the secrets all over the world.

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        The steam deck is so amazing. I’m so close to pulling the trigger on one, but am wondering if I should wait for a cpu upgrade.

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          Support the Steam Deck, Valve is doing everything right. Right to repair, virtually all parts replaceable, Linux, Rma’s to name a few. Not to mention it’s a monster of a small machine, it could very well be a desktop replacement as well as a portable gaming system.

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            I’ll totally get a steam deck over any other handheld, just wondering if waiting for a steam deck with better cpu is the right choice.

            I’m not in a position to buy it today anyway.

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          One of my coworkers got one recently and absolutely loves it. I really want one, but I’m waiting until the next version eventually comes out, since the current one is slightly too heavy for me to hold easily.

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            I too am waiting on the next version. I need a new phone and laptop before I can think about a steamdeck. So hopefully a new one will be out by the time I am ready to buy it.