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.

  • MeanEYE@lemmy.worldEnglish
    156·
    1 year ago

    Typical Bugthesda. Am only wondering how did they get this big by only releasing buggy products. I can’t for the life of me remember a single product they have made that wasn’t buggy mess that community fixed for them time and time again without any compensation. Not only that community didn’t get any compensation, Bethesda tried to sell their work and pinch some more money.

    • ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      717·
      1 year ago

      Yet larian constantly gets free passes.

      Any serious bitching about SF seems to me to be nitpicking from folks who were just looking to bitch at Bethesda. It’s a fantastic game with minor issues that are easily overlooked and don’t really affect the experience.

      • rudolf_enum@lemmy.worldEnglish
        151·
        1 year ago

        Because Larian is relatively small compared to Bethesda and the game exceeded the already high expectations, it’s a AAA D&D 5e game, which is something people were looking for for a long time. Larian deserves it, and they are actively fixing the game anyway. Bethesda has no excuses to be releasing games that have the types of bugs that they do after having such giant successes like Skyrim. They have the money.

        • cheery_coffee@lemmy.caEnglish
          21·
          1 year ago

          I use a Mac and I’ve seen plenty, apart from us being forgotten and the release date pushed back silently twice. For me any dirt ground textures never render.

          Larian does a much better job than any other studio, but I paid for the game to play in August at release with my friends, but then they silently dropped the release date and the only viable solution to playing was to pay for GeForce now and stream it.

          I’d only be a little annoyed if they communicated their issues.

        • BedbugCutlefish@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          1 year ago

          BG3 was basically unplayable for us for about 2 weeks post 1.0

          But also, we really wanted to only play co-op, and the bugs were mostly online related, which is arguably more forgivable.

          But still, hard crashing or freezing every 15 minutes for one of the three of us sucked, and looking at support forums, wasn’t uncommon either.