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.

  • Kbin_space_program@kbin.social
    52·
    1 year ago

    Hey now. Morrowind was beautifully written.
    Then by Oblivion they cheapened out and used AI to start generating the map and dungeons.

        • Kbin_space_program@kbin.social
          11·
          1 year ago

          No it doesn’t.

          Morrowind’s entire map was hand made. All of its quests were hand made.

          Starting with Oblivion, they moved to make most of the map and quests automatically with minimal human intervention.

          To the point that they admitted it was too much for the tech at the time and actually hurt the gameplay, and pulled back for Skyrim, using a mix of computer made and human made content, adding in the radiant quest system in an attempt.to make the gameplay “endless”.

          The modern thing we call AI is just the chatbots from a decade prior with improved processing power and vastly larger data sets to work with. The tech in those chatbots had been working in various pieces for a decade before that.

    • Dojan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      There’s a lot of interesting world building and history to draw upon, it’s just a shame Bethesda doesn’t do that.

      You’re never really presented with moral choices. The story never really has you think about things. There’s a tonne of lore books and tapes and what have yous that spill a rich tapestry of stories at you, but you’re never really shown any of it. I’ve had fun with Oblivion, Fallout 3, and Skyrim, and to a lesser extent Fallout 4, but at this point I’m kind of tired of it. They’re all the same game. They have the same floaty combat. The same lacklustre storytelling. The same awkward “talk at you” conversations.

      Been there, done that.