A prominent open-source dev publishes their findings as to what's going on with Starfield's performance, and it's pretty darn strange.

According to Hans-Kristian Arntzen, a prominent open-source developer working on Vkd3d, a DirectX 12 to Vulkan translation layer, Starfield is not interacting properly with graphics card drivers.

  • @whileloopEnglish
    19•1 year ago

    The end of the article seems to say as much. However, it seems the Vkd3d developers are trying to improve what they can.

      • @whileloopEnglish
        22•1 year ago

        That did happen with Elden Ring. Valve found an issue with it and patched it for Vulkan, so it ran better on Steam Deck than Windows.

      • @cybersandwichEnglish
        4•1 year ago

        I had a single crash playing starfield on PopOS. Other than that, it’s been incredibly performant for me. Ryzen 5700x and 6700xt GPU

        • circuitfarmerEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          I’m on a 7600x + 6600XT, and the only crash I’ve ever had was yesterday when loading a save. Also running Pop.

        • Virkkunen
          -1•1 year ago

          I’ve had not a single crash so far and most of my frame dipping issues (from 60 to 40) were solved by lowering the shadows to medium. The only bugs I had were ships spawning in other ships so they spaz out, but that’s very rare. On the other hand, Baldurs Gate 3 would constantly drop to 10 FPS and I had severe bugs that locked me out of entire questlines.

          But I guess I’m not allowed to enjoy games and have fun because gamebryo = bad

      • @pycoraxEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        I mean, you could run VKD3D on Windows too to get the improvements.