Hello all, ive read various bits and pieces about being able to run games on Framework 13. My specs and OS are below. I have a brand new laptop & chose the middle of the road specs thinking it would be fine for gaming. but IDK. I’m 100% a noob with Linux, and Steam, the last time I was gaming was on a PS4 and I’ve never really done PC gaming.
I am trying to run Baldur’s Gate 3 and it’s unplayably slow, but I read elsewhere people run it on their framework 13. I adjusted the graphics settings to be low, which took 10 minutes due to how slow the cursor was… Feels like nothing improved. It’s running with Proton Experimental. I had chosen Vulkan after googling to see how to best run graphics (TBH I don’t understand the difference between this and dx-11) Anything else I need to adjust or know about this, or is it a hopeless cause? Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
Well the framework 13 doesn’t have a dGPU so you’re relying on integrated graphics of the AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 (the AMD Radeon 860M). You’ll probably want to drop the resolution you are running the game at as the full resolution of a FW13 is pretty hard even for some mid-end desktops to run a title like BG3 at.
This isn’t the only possible fix, but it’s where I’d start. Good luck!
The iGPU on that system should not be so weak as to take 10 minutes for you to navigate the menu. Could you verify you’re not using software rendering by running: glxinfo | grep ‘renderer string’
And seeing something like this: OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon 780M Graphics (radeonsi, phoenix, LLVM 20.1.8, DRM 3.64, 6.16.3-200.fc42.x86_64)
The radeonsi part means OpenGL is at least gpu-accelerated. Vulkan would need this as a pre-requisite.
Using the Vulkan renderer is preferred, and I’m using Proton 10 (as suggested here).
I just ran it on an external monitor using the iGPU of my 7840H cpu and it runs about 15fps using High graphics preset on FSR 2.2 balanced at 4k resolution in the city. (I normally play it on the dGPU @60fps60fps)
Dropping to FSR 2.2 performance and low preset, it runs very playable.Your iGPU is comparable, so it should work.
Also, consider enabling the reserve 4GB iGPU memory option in the bios.
Also, I noticed you’re running Mint, which I think runs the ubuntu LTS base, so please check your Mesa version. It should be at least version 25.0 for good performance on that platform.
If it’s older, see about using a PPA to upgrade Mesa to the latest stable.
Edit: I’m on 25.1.7, but 25.2 is the latest stable.
Finally got it installed and went through the intro (wow, great, would watch the movie ), haven’t test much, just got into first scene.
AMD 350, 32 GB (I gave the iGPU 8 GB in BIOS), Ubunu 25.10, Wayland. 2.2 k Screen set to 125% fractional scaling in Gnome/Ubuntu settings.
I didn’t optimize anything. Standard Proton that came with Steam install.
I set the game resolution to fullscreen 1440 (the middle option, look up detail later) and HSR to 2.2 (didn’t experiment with any alternatives yet).
Options work fine (first Larian launcher dialog is quite small, but managable), arriving in game after the very cool intro video I get 25 FPS. Everything looks good and 25 FPS is fine for a turn-based game IMHO.
As has been said above, please make sure you’re not on the software renderer - because that would explain extremely slow settings screen.
So far everything works fine out-of-the box. Will report more after I went further in the game. This was just first impressions.
), haven’t test much, just got into first scene.