Baldur's Gate 3 issues a 6-step pre-launch to-do list for early access players, and is once again strongly recommending you put it on an SSD

pcgamer.com:

Baldur's Gate 3 is hours away and I've already written off my weekend as a total loss. But if you too are about to spend the next several hundred hours of your life in Faerûn, Larian says there are some things you should know before going in, especially if you've been playing the game's early access version up to now. 

In a news post titled "Baldur's Gate 3: Preparing for Launch" on the game's Steam page, Larian's put together a six-step to-do list for anyone about to gather their party and venture forth. The key takeaway is something they've spoken about before: You should really scrub your PC clean of any trace of the game's EA version before you install and run the full game after it releases at 8 am ET / 11 am PT / 4 pm BST today.

Point one on the list is to delete your saves from within BG3 itself. Just navigating to the folder and deleting it in File Explorer might cause the game's cloud save system to have a meltdown, so instead you're advised to hit Load Game at the main menu before going through and deleting your old campaigns. Once that's done, uninstall the game and delete any mods you have still lingering in its former directory.

The unique situation of BG3's release has really highlighted some of the inefficiencies in the way Steam is set up to handle pre-loads and early access games. I suppose the nature of its release is fairly unique—its EA version functioned more as a demo or prototype than as an unfinished model of the final game—but it really feels like a platform as massive as Steam should be able to handle a preload for BG3 without its servers buzzing and sparking. Maybe Valve will solve that one out in time for Baldur's Gate 4.

Apart from scouring your PC clean of BG3's EA version, the other steps