In today’s Baldur’s Gate 3 guide we take a look at how the controller works on the PC. The good news is that it’s freakin’ amazing. Here’s my guide on how to…

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    1 year ago

    I’ve got about ten hours in on a controller (DualSense) on Steam. One thing: you’ll always get Xbox controller icons if Steam Input is enabled. If you disable that in game properties, you’ll get PlayStation icons for PlayStation controllers.

    I had to do this too for the correct icons to show up for the PS in the game.

    I have an Xbox controller and I own a PS5 with a few controllers. I’ve tried both and like both. I do like the touch pad curser to help click and start the game from the lauch pad. (I hate lauch pads. They don’t work well with Big Picture Mode and 4K TVs.)

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      1 year ago

      Fwiw, you can skip the launcher by adding –skip-launcher to the game launch options in its properties on Steam. This does force DX11 mode without some other adjustment though (just in case you’re running Vulkan mode).

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        1 year ago

        I prefer Vulkan. The Launcher is not a big deal. i just don’t think it’s needed.
        Loving the game and Larian.

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          You can also skip the launcher and use Vulkan, it’s just a different launch option (don’t recall exactly at the moment but should be easy enough to find; it’s also different for Linux and Windows). Basically you have to get it to launch bg3.exe instead of bg3_dx11.exe.