The CEO of Larian Studios has revealed that the developer is being compelled to undertake optimisations on the upcoming Divinity that it wouldn’t ordinarily be doing at this stage due the elevated worth of RAM.
Talking with TheGamer, Swen Vincke touched base on the assorted pressures that Larian Studios is confronted with when releasing a title in Early Entry, and introduced up the rising value of RAM as one of many points the corporate is having to cope with.
Curiously, one other [issue Larian is facing] is de facto the worth of RAM and the worth of SSDs and f**ok, man. It’s like, actually, we’ve by no means had it like this. It sort of ruins your entire projections that you just had about it as a result of usually, you recognize the curves, and you may defend the {hardware}. It’s gonna be an fascinating one. It implies that most certainly, we already must do a number of optimization work in early entry that we didn’t essentially wish to do at that time limit. So it’s difficult, but it surely’s video video games.
Larian Studios introduced Divinity throughout The Sport Awards 2025 final week, though proper now there’s no affirmation on a launch date or what platform(s) it is going to launch. The corporate this week acknowledged that it was utilizing generative AI to assist within the growth course of, however confused that Divinity received’t really characteristic any content material produced by the tech.
This induced some backlash on-line, prompting Vincke to problem assertion to make clear that the studio solely makes use of “AI instruments to discover references, similar to we use Google and artwork books.”
Larian Studios is driving excessive off the again of the critically-acclaimed Baldur’s Gate III, which launched for PC in August 2023 and arrived for PS5 the next month. Regardless of the large success of the RPG, Larian quickly introduced it could be shifting away from the franchise and the Dungeons & Dragons IP as a complete for its subsequent venture, moderately than work on DLC for Baldur’s Gate III or a full sequel.
[Source – TheGamer]
