Playing Baldur's Gate 3 on your Steam Deck? New patch improves graphics in a big way

Baldur's Gate 3 just received another big patch (Bethesda, are you paying attention?) and this fourth effort brings in a whole load of nifty changes, most notably the addition of FSR 2.2.

With FSR 2.2 now on-board for AMD graphics cards - and that means the Steam Deck, of course - the RPG will get nicely boosted frame rates courtesy of the upscaling tech, but with much better graphics.

Using FSR 1.0, which was previously in place, Baldur's Gate 3 looked pretty awful, with all manner of odd graphical artifacts and glitches as PC Gamer, which spotted the release of this patch, points out.

However, with FSR 2.2, the devs note that you should see an increase in image quality, and PC Gamer has tried it, and agrees that the patch makes a big difference. Great news, then, not just for Steam Deck owners, but those with a gaming PC that has an AMD graphics card.

That said, desktop PC owners with an NVIDIA GPU are still better off sticking with DLSS (you probably won't be surprised to learn).

Elsewhere Patch #4 applies a massive amount of tweaking and fixing, with over 1,000 changes introduced to Baldur's Gate 3.

That includes some work on the accessibility front with a setting for the color-blind (and indeed various options for different types of color-blindness).

Among the gameplay tweaks, crash fixes, balancing, and script adjustments, there are a couple of other highlighted changes aside from the major two we've already mentioned (FSR 2.2 and the accessibility improvements).

The other big enhancements are as follows:

• You can now dismiss dead avatars to Withers' Wardrobe. Withers will now also explain how the wardrobe works
• You can now customise hirelings' appearance when recruiting them