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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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[–] Weylandyuta 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Well that's a truly horrible experience.... I think it warrants a refund

[–] Weylandyuta 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Weylandyuta 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why do you assume they're going to issue a patch?

[–] Weylandyuta 4 points 1 year ago

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.

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