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.

  • BlackmistEnglish
    26·
    10 months ago

    Bethesda the publisher and Bethesda the developer are different things.

    The publishing arm seemed to know what they were doing, certainly enough for MS to buy them.

    The developing arm is nothing if not consistent. You know what you’re getting into. An RPG, with lots of character build possibilities (even if a particular build overpowered enough for 90% of players to accidentally stumble across it, like Skyrim’s stealth archer build), a handful of memorable NPCs, no real character development, so-so performance, and a shitload of bugs.

    If people are still buying them and still not enjoying them I don’t know what to say. It’s like watching Fast and Furious 10, and going “well that’s fucking dumb”.

    • msage@programming.devEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      I saw the ending of the last F&F by mistake (they sold us tickets for a movie that started an hour later), and let me tell you - that was fucking dumb.

      • BlackmistEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        I watched the first one many years ago, which appeared to just be Ocean’s 11, but for people who think putting blue lights under your car makes it go faster.

        Then I watched F&F9 on Netflix the other month. I don’t remember any of the plot. At one point a car did a Tarzan rope swing.

        • PickTheStick@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          Oh god, what? I haven’t seen any since the first either, was the movie fun enough to make it worth watching the series of them?