PSA: Larian recommends deleting Early Access saves before Baldur’s Gate 3 launches

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Three years of Early Access later, we are but hours away from the full release of Baldur’s Gate 3 on PC. Larian Studios recommends players kill a few minutes of their nigh-endless wait to perform a few file management tasks to ensure the best-possible Baldur’s Gate 3 experience upon release.

Larian says that it has taken measures to ensure a smooth transition either way, but the company still recommends players perform these three simple tasks before playing the final game: delete your old saves, uninstall the Early Access, and remove any mods.

“Your Early Access saves and player profiles aren’t compatible with the release version of Baldur’s Gate 3, and leaving them in your save folders may in some fringe cases cause issues,” Larian says. Here are their outlined steps for taking care of everything pre-launch.

The Early Access saves and player profiles aren’t compatible with the final version and might, in some cases, cause some problems. Thus, it’s best to just get rid of them altogether.

Note: don’t take the easy road of just deleting the game’s save folder. That might cause conflicts with Steam Cloud or Larian Cloud as they will automatically re-download the save files.

This is the way to do it:

This way the game will delete all saves, and also tell the Cloud services not to re-download them.

If you want to keep your save files for the sake of nostalgia, visit the %LocalAppData%\Larian Studios folder, and copy the contents to another folder of your choosing before going through the aforementioned deletion process.

As we’ve previously mentioned, BG3 doesn’t feature a preload, nor will the Early Access version speed up your download times for the finished product. It’s best to just uninstall the whole thing, so we