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.

  • @stonedemomanEnglish
    29•9 months ago

    I’m eagerly awaiting the radio silence from all the people blaming it on obsolete hardware lol

    Overall I like the game though, it has a lot of very entertaining ideas.

    • circuitfarmerEnglish
      16•9 months ago

      It’s clearly not due to obsolete hardware. Not getting 60fps in New Atlantis while playing on a beast with 50-70% usage max points to optimization issues. I honestly don’t know why those people think it’s hardware

      Oh it’s because Todd Howard said so

      • @[email protected]English
        7•9 months ago

        I dont understand how this is even an argument dude, bethesda has the worst reputation for this stuff. Literally every game they have released has been buggy as shit with terrible performance, but for some reason people just handwave it and say “its a bethesda game” when did they get so brainwashed, why is it acceptable for them??

        • @stonedemomanEnglish
          2•9 months ago

          Yeah, exactly. I’m getting tired of this too. Even with all of the evidence in the world that this issue is halving game performance people are still dismissing it. $1000 dollars worth of performance I paid for down the drain and yet “a smooth 60 FPS” is enough justification for people.

          It’s like if somebody sold you a full-priced V8 that had 4 of the cylinders not firing and your peers telling you to deal with it because “at least it runs”.

        • @Redditiscancer789English
          1•9 months ago

          I mean people are trying to say it’s another FO76. It’s not even remotely close to another FO76.

        • @assassin_aragornEnglish
          1•9 months ago

          It blows my mind how critical everyone was of Cyberpunk, despite it running fairly well on PC especially a few weeks after release, and how much of a pass everyone gives Starfield.

    • @tiltmachineEnglish
      -48•9 months ago

      You’re just taking the claim of some random guy and a website at face value though.

      • @[email protected]English
        10•9 months ago

        This really isn’t a good take when the “random guy” has provided proof, open source code demonstrating, and a relatively easy way to verify his claims (using his code).

        It’s all there out in the open if anyone has specific counter points, and this type of thing isn’t an unusual situation with Bethesda developed games, or games on this engine.