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Request for advice: talk me out of upgrading my PC
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From what I understand about BG3, it's the CPU that's causing issues later in the game. Not yours in particular (I'm running a 2600X as well!), but CPUs in general.
I'll have to find the Digital Foundry article, but if I recall, even some 13th gen Intel and current Ryzen chips have been experiencing issues.
Seems very much like an optimization thing for the third act of Baldur's Gate in particular.
As for whether or not you should upgrade, I think it depends on what you want out of it.
I've got almost identical specs to you, except I'm running the original RTX 2060 instead of the RX 580.
I've also been considering an upgrade, but I kind of just stick with Nvidia (their availability where I live is much higher than AMD GPUs, and they're somehow more affordable which is very strange) and I'm noticing more and more GPUs requiring larger PSUs which I'm in no hurry to swap out just yet.
Also the VRAM thing because of absolutely terrible optimization we've seen recently, but that's more of an Nvidia issue than AMD.
But if you feel you're in need of an upgrade for whatever reason, I'd say go ahead. It's sometimes better to spend the money you have while you can than waiting on something better (as long as you have some left over, otherwise priorities should maybe be a bit different).
So a faster CPU might improve performance in Act 3 of BG3? Sign me up! It did indeed seem like a CPU issue since there was no stuttering or frame drops, but characters just standing around thinking long and hard about their turns during combat. Partial towards that upgrade since the 2600x is fine for most cases and this specific issue is likely to be patched by devs.
I'm leaning towards AMD mainly because I have had no bad experiences with dealing with their drivers on Linux and because their mid-range cards actually have more VRAM than the card from 2017 that I'm trying to replace. My RM650x should be fine driving a RX 6700xt or even a 6800xt, so neither should be too power hungry for this setup.