As part of an exciting partnership with NASA, Bethesda have created a game that can only be run on a NASA supercomputer.

Bethesda had brought out some cracking games but their contempt for users has increased with every release. They're not the only games company that does this. It's still disappointing.

I was legit pissed I couldn't run this. It doesn't even look that good. BG3 ran just fine though?

"just buy a 400W GPU" -Todd Howard, 2023

hmm...

"Let them eat cake" -Marie Antoinette, 18th Century

Always best to go direct to the source on these things (emphasis mine):

NOTE: The meaning of this PR, potential perf impact and the problem it tries to solve is being grossly misrepresented on other sites.

The goal of this refactor is to optimize for cases where games (Starfield in particular) uses advanced ExecuteIndirect in very inefficient ways.

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To be clear, the gains expected here are very minute. Single percent range to pop some final bubbles that Mesa didn't clean up on its own. The real gains come from recent Mesa patches on main.

It's absurd that I can't run it at a decent frame rate even at lowest possible settings. I have a 3070ti and "only" an i7-9700k. I'll pirate it again when I upgrade my CPU to an i9 series I guess.