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Open source community figures out problems with performance in Starfield

www.destructoid.com Open source community figures out problems with performance in Starfield

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.

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I wonder if this has anything to do with not being able to load my saves. I went to mars and exited the game after a long gaming session. Came back the next day and I get a full system crash upon trying to load the exit save. Tried the autosaves, same deal. Tried my last normal save, same deal. Every once in about 5-6 full system crashes I can reload one of the saves from just landing on mars but if I try to enter caledonia then it's a full system crash. It's weird too, I can still hear the game running in a loop but I can tell there is no input and the graphics fully fail. Very frustrating. I finally got back to my main rig to be able to play and the game has just been straight not playable since about the day after it came out. Can't even get a hotfix from Bethesda. Bummer. I'll just have to wait to play it again. I'm not going to restart a new character just to run into the same thing.
- Well that's a truly horrible experience.... I think it warrants a refund
  
  Normally, I'd fully recommend that but I still want to play the game. I was actually really enjoying myself. I'll just wait until they actually issue a patch. I'm a little shocked not even one hotfix has gone out.
  
  I'm a little shocked not even one hotfix has gone out.
  I wouldn't be surprised if the whole team took a vacation right when the game went into early access. But yes, it is very odd that not one patch has come out yet. I'm sure if everyone did take a vacation, they are probably mostly back now and working on it.
  
  Yeah I bet everyone needed a break after they finally launched. Hopefully the r&r helps them come back fresh to knock some of these issues out.
  
  Why do you assume they're going to issue a patch?
  
  They patched Skyrim, fallout 4 and 76. They are a big enough studio that I have no reason to believe they'd just release it and move on. I'm not talking about changing what the game is. I'm just talking about technical patches to do some bug fixing.
- The crash on loading has bricked two of my characters now. I don't think I can be bothered again till they patch. One bricked in mars, the second bricked before I made it there. Waste io many hours.
  
  That's where I'm at. I'm excited to be able to play again but I have to wait for however long it takes them to release a patch addressing this. I'm not mad about anything I've seen. But I literally can't play a game that I can't trust to save and be reloaded.
- I had the same problem, this vkd3d update fixed it. But had to run it with lutris where i can select the vkd3d version manually.
- Are you playing on PC/Steam? Something weird happened to me yesterday where an exit save wouldn't load. Upon trying an earlier save, I found none would load (game crashed to desktop when selecting). I could not figure it out.
  On a whim I verified files in Steam, which triggered a 30 MB update. After verification, my exit save worked fine. I'm at a loss for why core files would change.
  
  Yup, steam with a Ryzen 5600x and rx 6800xt. I've tried verifying the game files a couple times. I'll give it another go in a bit. I'd love for there to be a change but I think I'm in that weird category that should work fine but it's just borked. The game ran great otherwise. Just trying to load saves and on the one attempt that actually works if I try to enter Caledonia it's an automatic I have to reboot my system.

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