A "beta" update for Starfield, that mainly focuses on performance, stability and minor quest fixes, helped noticeably with the performance of this game. I've had it for a few days now and have been playing it. Other than the usual texture loading that goes on, I haven't had any performance spells.
Normally I'd have to have a hole in the head to want to install a beta game update, but I've done that before with this game with no issues and when the update is released it installs and takes you out of the beta thing.
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Starfield also benefits from disabling vkd3d-proton's pipeline cache, and using the game's own DX12 Pipeline.cache and the normal mesa shader backend. In Steam, that's
This game doesn't cause a lot of large vulkan shaders to be compiled (it does build ~100 Mb Pipeline.cache though), but that vkd3d-proton pipeline library mechanism was gumming up the works. Once they are cached they are there and the game doesn't hitch when I leave an area and come back and pan around.
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I got an interesting "mod" (adds a quest and some gear) from the Workshop. I found out about it, because the latest patch notes have some fixes for bugs this mod caused in the game. That's pretty good for Bethesda to actually patch their game to accommodate a popular free mod.
It's called Hell's Gate, and it brings Doom 3 into the game. A mysterious broadcast override crackles through a SSNN (news network) speaker as you walk by it. This adds the quest to your inventory. You go find a derelict ship that the broadcast came from, and get the coordinates to another ship. There you find a mad, distraught merc with an artifact he was to bring to this facility on Mars (of course lol).
Of course, it opens an extra dimensional portal that lets a bunch of Doom Hell creatures through (they are called ??? lol). You get the Praetor suit (the soldier's suit from the Doom games), The Crucible melee weapon and a Super Shotgun (that I haven't looked at yet).
It's not a very long mission, but pretty cool. As soon as I grabbed the suit, it kind of went into berserker mode as the portal opened and I was left fighting with that Crucible sword which you can see:
It's called Hell's Gate, and it brings Doom 3 into the game. A mysterious broadcast override crackles through a SSNN (news network) speaker as you walk by it. This adds the quest to your inventory. You go find a derelict ship that the broadcast came from, and get the coordinates to another ship. There you find a mad, distraught merc with an artifact he was to bring to this facility on Mars (of course lol).
Of course, it opens an extra dimensional portal that lets a bunch of Doom Hell creatures through (they are called ??? lol). You get the Praetor suit (the soldier's suit from the Doom games), The Crucible melee weapon and a Super Shotgun (that I haven't looked at yet).
It's not a very long mission, but pretty cool. As soon as I grabbed the suit, it kind of went into berserker mode as the portal opened and I was left fighting with that Crucible sword which you can see:
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I'll have to check what this game is going for now, or maybe see if it goes on sale when they have their summer sale.