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.

  • Dasnap@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    I’d assume an issue possibly at the engine level isn’t something that a mod can fix?

    • whileloop@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      The end of the article seems to say as much. However, it seems the Vkd3d developers are trying to improve what they can.

      • Vilian@lemmy.caEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        if it run better on linux because of that i’m gonna laugh so much

        • whileloop@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          1 year ago

          That did happen with Elden Ring. Valve found an issue with it and patched it for Vulkan, so it ran better on Steam Deck than Windows.

        • cybersandwich@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I had a single crash playing starfield on PopOS. Other than that, it’s been incredibly performant for me. Ryzen 5700x and 6700xt GPU

          • Virkkunen@kbin.social
            11·
            1 year ago

            I’ve had not a single crash so far and most of my frame dipping issues (from 60 to 40) were solved by lowering the shadows to medium. The only bugs I had were ships spawning in other ships so they spaz out, but that’s very rare. On the other hand, Baldurs Gate 3 would constantly drop to 10 FPS and I had severe bugs that locked me out of entire questlines.

            But I guess I’m not allowed to enjoy games and have fun because gamebryo = bad