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I was prepared to be very disappointed with Starfield performance with my laptop but it is just fine in my opinion. GPU - RTX 3050, 16 gigs ram, all ssd storage, cpu - AMD Ryzen 5 6600H. Here is 30 seconds from when I just got to New Atlantis with lots of people to stress the frame rate.

 

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By the time the download finishes and I get it installed, I'll have to make dinner. :bawl:

This after all the hell I just went through to get my free copy from Amazon via Steam. :bawl:

I am never doing this again.

Btw, if anyone ever runs across the issue, if you install a new graphics card make damn sure you launch at least one game you already have installed so you don't have to dick around with Steam not recognizing the new card in the middle of trying to get the game from Amazon.

Bloody hell.
 

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lol It's Skyrim all over again but in space!

 
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Wait, its a Bethesda sandbox game. Its not just ~ give player 10000gold or whatever
 

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Actuall, the real money question, its Skyrim in space. You can collect up and build pillow forts in Skyrim. Can you collect up all the pillows in the galaxy, and start jettisoning them into space in the same area, until they form a Pillow Planet?
 

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Never played Skyrim so I have no clue.

Flying a ship in Starfield is nothing like flying in Empyrion. So far Emp does it better.

I have to learn how to fly all over again. And remember how to get where I'm going. And remember how to "land".

Bloody hell! 😂

I'm seeing tons of replay material so that's good. :geek:
 

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Actuall, the real money question, its Skyrim in space. You can collect up and build pillow forts in Skyrim. Can you collect up all the pillows in the galaxy, and start jettisoning them into space in the same area, until they form a Pillow Planet?
That's a good question! I never did the pillow fort in Skyrim. I did a massive collection of teddy bears in Fallout 3 and 4 though.

 

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Times say, $70 a person that's over $400 million dollars. Quite a chunk of change.
Some of those are on Game Pass like I am. I then bought the Premium Edition Upgrade for $31 to get early access and the first expansion when it comes out so it is actually less than that.
 
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Times say, $70 a person that's over $400 million dollars. Quite a chunk of change.
I wonder how many bought the graphics card offered by Amazon with the Starfield being free with purchase like we did.
 

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Major programming faults discovered in Starfield's code by VKD3D dev


Vkd3d (the dx12->vulkan translation layer) developer has put up a change log for a new version that is about to be (released here) and also a pull request with more information about what he discovered about all the awful things that starfield is doing to GPU drivers (here).

Basically:

  1. Starfield allocates its memory incorrectly where it doesn't align to the CPU page size. If your GPU drivers are not robust against this, your game is going to crash at random times.
  2. Starfield abuses a dx12 feature called ExecuteIndirect
    . One of the things that this wants is some hints from the game so that the graphics driver knows what to expect. Since Starfield sends in bogus hints, the graphics drivers get caught off gaurd trying to process the data and end up making bubbles in the command queue. These bubbles mean the GPU has to stop what it's doing, double check the assumptions it made about the indirect execute and start over again.
  3. Starfield creates multiple `ExecuteIndirect` calls back to back instead of batching them meaning the problem above is compounded multiple times.
 
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I'm not enjoying it as much as i thought i would... the sense of wonder i got was quickly replaced by my sense of lost. inventory management is crap. the Map is weird.... i know nothing about show ship building and outpost work...(do they explain it later?) This is essentially skyrim in space. Theres nothing new here. Might as well be a re-skin.. The personalities are similar, boring and shallow.. tho i have been playing BG3 where they are way better so i'm probably bias.... games have evolved so much and it feel this is a weird step.. .but i guess those who enjoy Bethesda games will love it. on the bright side... i didn't crash once :)

Mods will definitely make it 10times better. i'll likely shelf it until later...
 
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I made it to level 3 Saturday. LOL Didn't play yesterday. I haven't had any crashes or issues so far (other than the Inventory and movement between pack/bot/cargo hold being quite clunky) with graphics set on high. Started with medium.

Reminds me of what EA/Maxis did with Sims 4 base game. Not a good start but they have more than made up for it and continue to do so. It's not going away any time soon and it's already 9 years old. They finally listened to the players and the different packs keep coming.

I'm hoping Bethesda does something similar with Starfield. Starting with Inventory and Inventory movement.
 

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Fallout games : J
Skyrim : J
Far Cry games : J
Cyberpunk 2077 : J
Starfield : L
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I liked a Skyrim mod where if an NPC said they took an arrow to the knee a lightning bolt would strike them dead.
 
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