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.

  • avater@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    1 year ago

    only issue I see with the game at the moment is that they did not use those fly/land/dock sequences to mask the loading times. I think that would enhance the experience a lot

    • Red_October@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      1 year ago

      It really would have. Considering that my loading screens are scarcely longer than those sequences anyway it could have, should have been nearly seamless.

      • avater@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        are you on pc? Normally my loading screens last about 2-3 seconds, which is really short and a reason that I dont mind them that much

        • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          12·
          1 year ago

          I think that’s what he means, he could load faster if the animation didn’t exist and instead of using the time for the animation to load, you get the animation then a loading screen.

    • PintShotRiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      181·
      1 year ago

      Exactly it almost seems like that was the plan and then something went wrong and they couldn’t fix it in time