Download Issues Plague Baldur’s Gate 3 Launch

Want to get started in Baldur’s Gate 3, released yesterday on PC? You will first have to tackle a size problem: son weight, 122GB! As noted, on August 3, 2023, several Internet users noticed significant download problems. On Twitter (now “X”), a player complains, for example, of a process started “twelve hours ago” when Valve’s platform only told him two. According to our colleagues, in some cases, the download did not succeed at all, indicating “no internet connection” or even “inaccessible content”. Some people got better results by restarting Steam, or with wired Wi-Fi.

A launch record

Obviously, it’s the crush generated by the game of studio Larian who is causing the problem. On one posted by the team’s editor: on sees that the number of reports on Steam skyrocketed yesterday from 4 p.m. (when the deployment of the version PC started in the world). Yes, Baldur’s Gate 3 was highly anticipated – but it certainly exceeded the Belgian developer’s expectations! The day of son launch, the RPG recorded a peak of 472,000 simultaneous players on Steam, which makes it the second largest launch of the year on the platform, behind Hogwarts Legacy (nearly 880,000 people at the same time) | in front of Sounds of the Forest.

The ransom of success for this role-playing game, which had not been able to benefit from the pre-download! With all that, Baldur’s Gate 3 is well on its way to becoming one of the best RPGs out there. son time. “Larian is very faithful to the rules of Dungeons and Dragons, it’s pure role-playing (…) on can really do anything, it’s really magic,” says Anagund, ‘s editor. On Metacritic, the few opinions already oscillate between 90 | 100. Our test house will arrive next week, but it smells very good.

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