The fact that Starfield runs as bad as it does is fucking absurd. There’s just no reason for it.
Lowest settings look worse than medium settings on Skyrim, a 12 year old game, and yet my computer that can run Skyrim on ultra without pause can barely keep 30fps on Starfield.
Gamebyro as a base engine is a fucking joke. Like Valve and Infinity Ward just patching the Quake engine over and over again is fine, it works. But building an engine on GameByro is like building your multi-million dollar factory on a sandy beach.
Not trashing Valve's approach, it works great. More just saying that when doing something as difficult as maintaining old code, being good is more important than being new. Source 2 and all the COD engines are good engines based on good game engines. Stock gamebyro shits the bed on any PC that isn't a single core 32 bit Windows XP machine
I don't know what your rig is like but if you havent already, try moving the install to an sdd or better yet m2.
I tried installing on a platter drive and had horrible load times, delayed audio, bad framerates.
Moved it to the m.2 and it was completely different. I'm no programmer but i wonder if there's a major design bottleneck at the hdd ruining framerates, like the game is loading shaders on the fly? I dunno but it worked
Already am on an M.2 SSD but my partner had it on an HDD and holy shit it straight up didn’t work. She has a killer new GPU and once she moved it it worked great for her.
My graphics card is decently below the minimum requirement, the minimum requirement is just absolutely fucking absurd for how just-okay this game looks. I’ve seen better looking games run significantly smoother on this same card.
Yeah I’m not sure when I’m gonna stop. It’s very mid, but something about the core “shooting dudes” part of the gameplay really grabs in in a way most fps games don’t. I could wander through abandoned bases shooting spacers all day long
The fact that Starfield runs as bad as it does is fucking absurd. There’s just no reason for it.
Lowest settings look worse than medium settings on Skyrim, a 12 year old game, and yet my computer that can run Skyrim on ultra without pause can barely keep 30fps on Starfield.
Gamebyro as a base engine is a fucking joke. Like Valve and Infinity Ward just patching the Quake engine over and over again is fine, it works. But building an engine on GameByro is like building your multi-million dollar factory on a sandy beach.
Valve does make substantial changes when they are needed - latest example is the switch to mesh-based maps instead of BSP trees in Source 2.
Not trashing Valve's approach, it works great. More just saying that when doing something as difficult as maintaining old code, being good is more important than being new. Source 2 and all the COD engines are good engines based on good game engines. Stock gamebyro shits the bed on any PC that isn't a single core 32 bit Windows XP machine
I don't know what your rig is like but if you havent already, try moving the install to an sdd or better yet m2.
I tried installing on a platter drive and had horrible load times, delayed audio, bad framerates.
Moved it to the m.2 and it was completely different. I'm no programmer but i wonder if there's a major design bottleneck at the hdd ruining framerates, like the game is loading shaders on the fly? I dunno but it worked
Already am on an M.2 SSD but my partner had it on an HDD and holy shit it straight up didn’t work. She has a killer new GPU and once she moved it it worked great for her.
My graphics card is decently below the minimum requirement, the minimum requirement is just absolutely fucking absurd for how just-okay this game looks. I’ve seen better looking games run significantly smoother on this same card.
Damn, i was hoping my experience could help. If it makes you feel any better i uninstalled it after 20 or so hours.
I felt completely disconnected from the world and just plain bored.
Yeah I’m not sure when I’m gonna stop. It’s very mid, but something about the core “shooting dudes” part of the gameplay really grabs in in a way most fps games don’t. I could wander through abandoned bases shooting spacers all day long
And the hope that maybe one of these skill unlocks will make the game more interesting.