PCMid-range
Baldur's Gate 3 - PC Optimized (RTX 4060, 1080p, Act 3 CPU-bound)
Baldur's Gate 3
Performance
75
avg FPS
60
target FPS
50
min FPS
100
max FPS
Mostly GPU-light, but Act 3's Lower City is heavily CPU-bound - hundreds of scripted NPCs exhaust CPU cores no GPU can offset. An RTX 4060 averages ~80FPS at 1080p Ultra, but the real fix for Act 3 is lowering Crowd Density. Use DirectX 11, not Vulkan, for steadier frame times.
Display
Resolution1920x1080
FPS CapOff
VSyncOff
Upscaling
TechnologyDLSS
Quality ModeQuality
Graphics Quality
TexturesHigh
Advanced Graphics
Ray TracingOff
Other
target gpuGeForce RTX 4060
graphics apiDirectX 11
graphics presetHigh
crowd densityLow (Act 3)
dynamic crowdsOff
model qualityMedium
Notes
RTX 4060 averages ~80FPS at 1080p Ultra; the High preset + DLSS Quality is the comfortable target (lean on DLSS harder at 1440p). The bottleneck is Act 3 Lower City - it's CPU-bound, so the highest-impact fix is Crowd Density -> Low (directly cuts NPC AI routines), plus Dynamic Crowds Off (+5-6%), lower Instance Distance, and reduced Model Quality. Use DirectX 11 (not Vulkan) for better frame pacing. Ambient Occlusion / Subsurface Scattering / Bloom give minor gains; Texture Filtering is broken - safe to lower.Hardware
OSWindows 11 23H2
Refresh144 Hz
Details
Updated6/14/2026
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Tags
rpgturn-basedcooppcoptimized-settingscpu-bound
Sources & Benchmarks
Tested byDexerto / pcoptimizedsettings (RTX 4060)