I got a 16” MBP M3 Pro 36gb primarily for my second masters. It’s beyond capable and has been perfect and amazing. I got it secondly to play WoW. Was disappointed as first with how bad the screen response time is but I got over it and it has been giving great performance, actually better than I thought it would so I’m very happy with it. And that’s all I wanted to do with it.

However, I kept seeing people on the sub say how great of performance they get when playing BG3. I was always very skeptical of this since the game has a hard time running even on a 4080 at 4k, but people kept saying the M3 Pro plays it no problem and it performs well and looks great.

Yeah, you either play at half the res on low settings at MAYBE 60fps or you play native with FSR on low settings and maybe 45fps but averaging 30fps. I know the machine is really good, hence my time with WoW but I’m sorry I’m not going to play any game on low settings at 30fps or turn down the resolution so it looks like ass.

I know apples to oranges with a dedicated rig and all, however so many of you praise this performance. That’s crazy. If it was 4k60 at low settings I would be totally fine, WoW is constantly above 100 at med/high settings with no FSR and plays great. I really thought I would be surprised with BG3 as I was with WoW.

Side note, playing WoW on battery for about 4 hours straight at those settings is fucking amazing, coming from all of my windows based laptops in the past. I didn’t know ARM chips could allow me to play high end content ON BATTERY confidently.