With Baldur’s Gate 3 The developer studio Larian has created something very special. A role-playing game as detailed as this, which at the same time offers the player so much freedom, is very rare. It is precisely for this reason that it has been repeatedly rated as best game of the year excellent. Also in our test we awarded Baldur's Gate 3 the best rating.
A Japanese research team has now set an impressive world record that makes it possible to play the role-playing game in a fraction of a second.
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What makes Baldur's Gate 3 so special?
The average playing time of 67 hours Only for the main story, only a few triple-A blockbusters reach (source: How long to beat). It also features well-written dialogue and tells many stories, both large and small, all of which have a lot of depth and complexity.
However, Baldur's Gate 3 is a CRPG, an absolute niche genre in gaming. Therefore, not even Larian itself expected such massive success. But back to the world record and what it's all about.
Baldur's Gate 3 in 4 milliseconds
That is how long it takes to download the 150 gigabytes of the role-playing game with the fastest internet connection in the world. With a bandwidth of 402 terabits per second (Tbit/s) Japanese scientists have set a new world record. For comparison: the average internet speed in Germany in May 2024 was approximately 90 Mbit per second (Source: Statista). This makes the Japanese line over 446,000 times faster.
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The team from Japan National Institute of Information and Communications Technology With this performance, the company broke the previous record of 321 Tbit/s from October 2023. However, the project is explicitly a research project that has no relevance for the end consumer.
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Apart from the fact that such technology would cost a fortune, most common motherboards are only designed for 1 to 2 Gbit/s. However, it would probably be enough for most gamers if German Internet providers could at least reliably achieve these speeds.