Larian Studios’Baldur’s Gate 3leaves early accesswith its 1.0 launch on PC tomorrow, August 3. While I’m sure those who played the game on Steam during early access are quite excited, this is a reminder that you need to delete your early access save file — and even uninstall the game to be safe — before the launch version ofBaldur’s Gate 3comes out.
The developers ofBaldur’s Gate 3revealed that this would be the case in acommunity post in July, saying that, compared to what was available in early access, the version of the game coming out on August 3 “is so vastly different that it’s not possible to make those save files compatible.” So, you will have to start fresh when this RPG leaves early access, but Larian went on to clarify this week that the safest thing for players to do to avoid any issues is to delete their early access save and even uninstall the game altogether ahead of August 3.
It broke down the steps to do this in thelatest community update post. To delete aBaldur’s Gate 3save, you’ll need to pick theLoad Gameoption on the main menu, choose an old campaign save, and then choose theDelete Campaignoption that appears at the bottom of the screen. After that, Larian recommends players delete any mods and uninstall the early access version ofBaldur’s Gate 3from their computer altogether.
To uninstall it on Steam, simply right-click onBaldur’s Gate 3in your library, choose theManagetab in the pop-up menu, and then pick theUninstalloption from there. Once you do all of that (and make sure your graphics card drivers are up to date), you shouldn’t have any issues installing the launch version ofBaldur’s Gate 3once it’s available.
Baldur’s Gate 3launches for PC on August 3. For those that don’t want to deal with these early access shenanigans, the game willcome out for PS5 on September 6and for Xbox Series X/S sometime in the future.
