Does Cryo Utilities Help Baldur's Gate 3 Performance on Steam Deck?

hello everyone and welcome back to the channel now I just did a video on Builders Gate 3 and playing the game specifically on Steam deck and my experience playing it on that machine how it ran the performance that kind of thing interestingly enough I got quite a lot of comments from people saying that their performance on Steam deck had been better than mine 30 to 40 FPS instead of the 25 to 30 I'd gone there wasn't always a reason given for this but enough people mentioned downloading the cry utilities app and also swapping the vram of this theme deck from one gigabyte to 4 gigabyte then I got curious and decided to give this a go myself to see if it helped with the performance of Baldur's Gate 3 on Steam deck and this is how I got on so first of all I changed my graphic settings in game to the default for the steam deck so I clicked detect settings just in case I've done something weird with the graphic settings and then I did turn FSR off again because that just made things look so many to me so apart from FSR I'm on the default graphic settings I've removed all the frame rate caps from both the game settings and also from the steam deck itself I'm going to show you some clips now that are before installing cray utilities this first one is in the emerald Grove where you first meet will this is a newer character that I'm playing in a cop campaign on my PC so it only has a smaller area of the map unlocked but you can see as I run around I'm getting about 25 to 30 frames per second never really higher than that though it seems to struggle at first when initiating dialogue but after that it Smooths out a bit I guess maybe because it's not rendering as much of the world this second clip then is on the cliff top where you first meet Gail so both of these are in act ones so far walking through the crashed nautiloid the frame rate hovers around 30 and interestingly as we get to the water and actually more water fills the screen that gives me a better frame rate and it makes it all the way up to nearly 40. not really sure why that is in my experience it's been a lot of games struggle with water and it's kind of weird in this case the water seems to be easier to run so I'm not sure what's going on with that now this last clip is of act two so beware of slight spoilers of seeing the environment but you can see here the steam Jack is really struggling there's gives you more effects on the screen and walking around the frame rate hovers around 20 and the most that I can get is 25 it really does seem to struggle in act two so that's the performance before query utilities was installed I then proceeded to install the app and change all of those settings to those suggested and I even changed the vram manually by holding the plus button and power button at the same time to access those settings after diving back in unfortunately we don't really see too much of a change I ran the same three areas and I tried to follow my walk path as closely as I could the general frame rate though seems to be about the same walking around initiating dialogue seems to have that same dip at first and then smooth this out and walking through the nautiloid and then reaching the water doesn't seem to be that different and unfortunately the Act 2 area struggles just as much to get anything over 25 frames per second so there we go sadly this doesn't seem to have changed anything for me but I thought it'd be a good experiment to do and I thought you guys might be interested in the results even though it didn't really do anything I think it might be interested to know that if you do have quite utilities installed and you're messing around with it trying activating and deactivating it and seeing how that affects all this gate three I'd be really interested to see if your experience was the same you know it's not really affecting anything for now at least for me it seems like it's a bit of a mystery still why some people get better performance on Steam deck than others considering we're all supposed to be running on the same Hardware I hope you found this video useful even if all it was would it save you a bit of time if you were considering doing the same thing thank you so much for watching and I hope to see you in the next video

Channel: Tom Finler

Views: 3,901

Keywords: steam deck, steam deck gameplay, baldur's gate 3, cryoutilities, cryoutilities baldurs gate 3, cryoutilities bg3, balgur's gate 3 steam deck, baldur's gate 3 performance, bg3 cryoutilities performance

Id: V9qNwPvql-s

Length: 3min 57sec (237 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 23 2023