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.

  • aksdb@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Evolution isn’t wrong. It’s not like Unreal Engine gets rewritten from scratch for each major version.

    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      That’s not really a good metaphor for software.

      Or maybe it is if you meant how many weird and inefficient things living creatures have because it was good enough. Think about that the next time you accidentally choke on nothing

    • Virkkunen@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Exactly, people forget that most of the well known engines today are as old or older than Creation Engine, they’re all patched/upgraded as it fits, though Creation Engine has no apparent version numbers and it’s made by Bethesda so you get free internet points and a feeling of superiority for hating on the popular thing.

      If you took these folks opinions as truth you’d think Bethesda games are massive flops that barely sell 10 copies and are a study case on how not to develop a game, but the real world is very different from the echo chamber…

      • aksdb@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Which is, literally, not every major version. I didn’t say “all Unreal Engine versions are evolutionary steps over their predecessors”, I said “they don’t get rewritten from scratch for each major version”.

        Someone else also brought up the Quake engine, which has even more evolutionary steps; even with forks like the Source engine.

    • Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Evolution frequently discards baggage.

      Bethesda just keep piling shit on top without doing any of the necessary groundwork to make it run well.

    • kingthrillgore@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      You can only reinvent the Bounding Box once. Epic is a better steward of technical debt. Bethesda doesn’t know what that is.

      • sheogorath@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        But with the optimization quality of current UE 5 games I’m quite pessimistic about the current trend of game development.