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Dumb question, but your gpu drivers are up to date correct?
Yep, every driver is up to date. In fact I just did a fresh windows install once again, updated all drivers once again, and the problem still persists.
The games however are stored in a secondary ssd, so the next thing I'm gonna do is install them on the main, and some of them on an external one, just in case it's a faulty SSD.
If that's not it then I have no clue.
How are you specs compared to the requirements? Particularly the RAM and GPU
I seem to remember a game (probably Deus Ex Mankind Divided) that I bought before upgrading my PC. I could play the beginning at 30 FPS lowest settings (maybe even reduced the resolution), but there was a cutscene that I simply could get past. I assumed it had something to do with how, up to that point, the map was small and manageable, and how I was reaching the more open parts of the game with simply too much stuff to remember/render
Specs are fine
AMD Ryzen 7 5800H, RTX 3050Ti, and 32GB RAM, it's a Legion 5 (2021)
All games mentioned run 100fps+ on High and I was watching the graphs, temperatures of 60-80C on the CPU and 50-75C on the GPU so those were fine (at least for a laptop)
What you're saying makes a lot of sense, but, the weird thing is that, except for Baldur's Gate 3, I already played all these games in my laptop before. I was just replaying them for fun, I just didn't know if somebody else had the same issues.
I think I'll just make another clean install and see what happens, this situation has me so confused tbh haha
Could be a failing harddrive/ssd. Often times games will load a shitload of assets right after the intro cutscene, and hit the storage for a bunch of shit. Try installing a game to a different storage device (a flashdrive would be slow but if it has enough space it should work as a test) and see if the issue persists.
I'll definitely try that tomorrow when I wake up, I just did a fresh install of Windows 11 and it still won't work, thanks for that recommendation, I have an external ssd so maybe it'll work like that.
Couldn't tell you what the problem is, but I once had an issue with BioShock. The rerelease to be precise. The game would boot up just fine and I could access the bonus museum thing just fine, but as soon as I tried starting the actual game, the screen would go black and the sound of after the loading screen.
Couldn't figure out what happened and just ended up deleting/uninstalling it because I didn't have the time to fix it/diagnose the problem.
Yeah I'm about to give up with these games as well and just not play them, I just finished a clean Windows install again and it still didn't work, I feel like I'm going insane here haha
I wouldn't be surprised if this is some sort of intentional fuckery by developers. I mean, the Spyro incident is pretty infamous.
Then why is he the only one? Baldur's Gate 3 is on GOG. This guy just has a bad PC or something wrong with his OS.
Definitely something wrong with my OS and I'm currently making yet another clean install, because the weird thing is that I've played all these games before (except BG3) on the same laptop, I was just replaying them for fun.
I just wanted to see if there was someone else with the same issues or something similar.
Right. I forgot it was on GOG too