I overclocked my steam deck, and now it runs at a 90% locked 30 fps in new Atlantis.
So, I’d say within the next update and maybe Proton update, we can see it improve heavily.
I overclocked my steam deck, and now it runs at a 90% locked 30 fps in new Atlantis.
So, I’d say within the next update and maybe Proton update, we can see it improve heavily.
The game is just unoptimized as hell
Barely looks any better than Fallout 4 and Skyrim but runs significantly worse
I think it looks much better than Skyrim or FO4 (to a lesser extent) - or at least, much more advanced in tech. There’s better shaders and lighting (interiors can look really nice), much more complex models, geometry and materials overall. Optimization is another matter of course.
BUT SANDWICH PHYSICS!!!
Likely because it’s a mess of procedural generation, it’s working harder than it needs to because there are almost no hand crafted assets.
Have you played valhiem? That is procudural and the game is less then 2gb
That is not a commensurate comparison.
And to think before it launched and soon after it came out I got downvoted to hell for saying graphically it doesn’t look very good.
Starfield’s graphical quality is a weird mix of good and bad.
On one hand, the planet environments and skyboxes are pretty damn good looking.
On the other hand, the people - especially the animations - still look like animatronics. Granted they’re more detailed than previous games, but they still have that vaguely robotic, uncanny valley feel to them.
I can’t say the NASApunk theme is doing them any favors, either. It’s just…uninteresting. Pedestrian.
Also, as an aside: graphics are the least of Starfield’s problems. I’d be perfectly happy to accept subpar graphics if the rest of the game was stellar. Sadly, it is not.
I like the NASApunk theme, makes me feel like I’m in an Alien movie.
The second you talk to an NPC is the second you notice it’s a Bethesda Game because it looks like it looked for the past 15+ years and better textures can’t hide those animations.
Honestly I couldn’t get very far in the game after realizing that…to be fair there’s so many other better games out right now…
Can’t argue with that one.
Personally my fave is how everyone I talk to looks over their shoulder with their back to me instead of turning to face me 😂
Also those New Atlantis trees. Like what the actual fuck.
This. I returned Starfield after spending half an hour in the character creator where the graphics looked significantly improved, Unreal Engine 5 level, and then got into the game and saw that my character looked straight out of Fallout 3 and cursed Todd Howard for making me waste half an hour of my life.
Graphics are fine it’s the complete lack of style or interesting art direction.
Honestly modded morrowind looks better at least there is interesting things to look at
Starfield definitely had “a style” to it. Whether it was good or interesting is debatable but it definitely had a style to it that permeated the whole game. A shame they covered it up with god-awful, ugly ass insta filters. It looks like someone pissed on my screen so I’ve been referring to it as the “piss filter”. The game had the potential to look SO much better, and then they did… that… to it.
Morrowind was peak Bethesda. They never made such an interesting world again.
OpenMW ftw bbe
Runs great modded to all hell on Steam Deck
I partially disagree. I think the game has horrendous faces and facial animations and the majority of the planets are barren wastelands, but there’s definitely beauty and style to be found. I very much like the “NASA-punk” aesthetics they chose.
Bethesda does a lot of copy paste on their dialogue too. Have you heard they’re reforming the dawnguard? Vampire hunters or something
Video game equivalent of flat soda, both aesthetically and narratively
It’s also not a fun game. It’s a busy work simulator. I’m sitting there playing the game and am just doing stuff.
You mean you don’t like finding ways around hours of senseless grinding just to make the game a little bit more than barley tolerable?
I would much rather play Skyrim, Oblivion, Fallout 3, or New Vegas.
Cyberpunk imo blows starfield out of the water visually and it runs perfectly fine at a smooth 40fps on my deck
I’m glad someone finally said it on this sub. Was getting tired of all the “it’s amazing on the deck. Best version” shitty posts. I love my deck but Starfield is straight ass on it.
Edit: looked at a few posts on here and the circle jerk is still happening. Either these people are blind or brand new to gaming.
What are you on about ? The sub trashed Starfield on deck since it launched. You’re blind my guy.
Lol not even close, this sub was filled with astroturfing on release. Took a week, just like most other platforms, for everyone to admit the game was ass, let alone admitting it ran bad
Astroturfing? That’s a new one.
This sub gets plagued by it. Jsaux employees have been caught doing it multiple times a year ago
to be fair starfield sucks no matter what device you play it on
You do have a great point. I bought the ultimate version or whatever and I was out after a couple of hours. 😩
I Guess is that a lot of people come from consoles where 20-30 fps is fine to them because they are used to it