So last night I was playing Baldur’s Gate 3, right? Suddenly my camera got stuck in this annoying top-down view like some messed-up strategy game. Couldn’t rotate, couldn’t zoom properly – total nightmare when you’re trying to pick up tiny items off the floor. Restarted the game three times but nope, same stupid bug every single time.
The Search Begins
Hopped onto forums and found this exact issue was happening to lots of players. Saw one thread saying verify your game files first, so I gave that a shot:
- Opened Steam library
- Right-clicked Baldur’s Gate 3
- Clicked Properties > Installed Files
- Hit that “Verify integrity” button
Steam did its thing but surprise – still broken after relaunching. Ugh.
Getting My Hands Dirty
Found another post suggesting to delete specific config files. Nervous about touching game files but desperate times:
- Went to Local Disk (C:)
- Opened Users > [my name] > AppData folder (had to enable hidden items)
- Navigated to Local > Larian Studios
- Deleted the whole “Baldur’s Gate 3” folder inside
Took a deep breath before restarting. Game recreated the folder automatically but camera was STILL stuck!
The Final Trick That Worked
Almost gave up until this obscure comment said to disable camera auto-rotation:
- Loaded my save file
- Pressed Escape for settings
- Went to Controls tab
- Scrolled down to Camera section
- Unchecked “Auto camera rotation”
- Changed “Edge of screen rotation” from Auto to Never
Boom! Suddenly my camera behaves normally again. Felt so dumb it was this simple toggle buried in settings. Moral of the story? Sometimes glitches need software AND settings fixes.