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.

  • stevedidWHATEnglish
    10•1 year ago

    And you know to some extent, having a community help you with your games and find bugs is beautiful and probably pretty fucking cool for devs. But the fact is that the business side of things continues to put a sour taste in all of our mouths, devs included.

    I really hope AI and the like push game devs out of big businesses and into self employment. Of all the types of people, I want problem solvers to have that life the most.

    • @[email protected]English
      13•1 year ago

      AI is still pretty bad at writing code, and often makes up API calls that dont exist. I wouldnt get your hopes up just yet.

      • stevedidWHATEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        Oh I’m aware haha. However I do wanna point out how much of an improvement gpt4 is compared to 3.5. The improvements have been pretty awesome imo even if they do tweak the ways you have to word things.

        Ik a lot of people bitch and moan about how bad it is but I’ve had nothing but luck after pivoting around and wording things differently, following different techniques. But I get not everyone likes adapting so much so it’s fine ig.

        As far as coding goes though I’m not mad about it being ass. That’s prolly the last part we should get working real well considering the implications for abuse we face now without considering the ability for it to write infinite offspring… :)

        Black mirror should do an entire season on AI imo I think it would fucking kill

    • @[email protected]English
      4•1 year ago

      having a community help you with your games and find bugs is beautiful and probably pretty fucking cool for devs.

      That’s all well and fine for free open source projects, but products that expect me to pay money for them need to pay contributors. I’m not donating my time and effort so that some shareholder can buy another yacht.

      • stevedidWHATEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Right, the business side of things again

        Totally agree. If it were just a down to devs and players as in open source projects, it’d be a much different story

      • stevedidWHATEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        You have completely misinterpreted what I said.

        I specifically said self employed which does not mean:

        • unemployed
        • making less than what they were
        • are in any way disappointed with the decision to work from home, on their own terms and rules.

        Weirdo capitalist begone.

        • Lols [they/them]English
          1•1 year ago

          being ‘pushed out of big businesses’ because a machine can do the same work for cheaper generally doesnt come with connotations of a stronger position to negotiate for the actual workers

          Weirdo capitalist begone

          lol

          • stevedidWHATEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            Who was talking about automation?

            I didn’t say pushed out by big business, is said out of. Meaning, they had some form of motivation which was strong enough to move them out of big business dude.

            Why are you picking a fight with someone who literally is wishing the best for devs lmao.

            • Lols [they/them]English
              1•1 year ago

              im not picking a fight

              you said i misinterpreted your comment, i read it back and deleted my original comment, and explained where the misinterpretation came from

              • stevedidWHATEnglish
                1•1 year ago

                Gotcha sorry about that, didn’t see you had deleted that’s my fault for not doing more diligence