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.

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    737·
    10 months ago

    They released on two different platforms. PCs have so much variation in hardware, it’s not surprising there are issues with it.

    • AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      It’s poorly optimized code, and the comments from the top brass has been “lol your PC sux” when they can’t even get it running right on their own hardware.

      It’s not the variations of PC that’s the issue, it’s a design and quality control issue. Direct X and Vulkan are the bread and butter of PC gaming. Microsoft developed direct X to establish a common graphics framework for Windows and Microsoft game studio still fucked up working with it.

      • uis@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        common graphics framework for Windows

        They could have picked Khronos’ APIs. They think they are smarter than everyone else including GPU developers.

        • Hadriscus@lemm.eeEnglish
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          10 months ago

          This is just classic corpo shit, developing their own proprietary stuff when no one asked for it. Apple with Metal too. Then it falls on developers to write abstraction layers