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.

  • uis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    common graphics framework for Windows

    They could have picked Khronos’ APIs. They think they are smarter than everyone else including GPU developers.

    • Hadriscus@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      This is just classic corpo shit, developing their own proprietary stuff when no one asked for it. Apple with Metal too. Then it falls on developers to write abstraction layers