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Open source community figures out problems with performance in Starfield (www.destructoid.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Mystify0771@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
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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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[–] mattreb@feddit.it 17 points 1 year ago

I'll give a different perspective on what you said: dx12 basically moved half of the complexity that would normally be managed by a driver, to the game / engine dev, which already have too much stuff to do: making the game. The idea is that "the game dev knows best how to optimize for its specific usage" but in reality the game dev have no time to deal with hardware complexity and this is the result.