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Starfield's been left out to dry at The Game Awards—and even dedicated fans are 'not terribly surprised' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] angelsomething@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I played it for 30 min and did not enjoy it past the first 10.

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Same with me. As soon as I realized that there is no sane way to travel from planet to planet even within the same system without fast travel, I stopped playing the game. Starfield literally made space boring.

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[–] rip_art_bell@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Starfield bad

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[–] disheveledWallaby@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Bought Starfield, still can't play it. Linux, nvidia no MUX switch. Starfield won't use the discrete GPU. Doesn't even know its there. Thrown every launch option I could find at it. Uninstalled and hidden now. Worst purchases I ever made on a game.

Oldrim and Starfield are the only bethesda games I didn't buy on super sale. I'll never make that mistake again. I even purposefully bought it without waiting for sales to throw some support to the devs for building the majority of my favorite games I've ever played.

The up side is that after about two weeks of tinkering I bought Baldurs Gate 3 on a whim. Been playing it non stop ever since. I might not have bought BG3 if bethesdas didn't have such a shity unpayable game at launch, so in a way I thank them. BG3 has far exceeded my every expectation. What I thought would be a mediocre time waster turned out to be the best game I've ever played.

[–] DarkMetatron@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That sounds more like a issue with your proton configuration then a fault of the game.

Have you tried to change the proton configuration, to force it to use the discrete GPU?

Nvidia GPUs are known to be problematic in Linux, not only with Wine/Proton

[–] disheveledWallaby@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes I've done so much tinkering to everything I can possibly do. Like 5 hours of 2 minute game time testing. Enough to negate a steam refund!

Telling proton to use prime-run. Custom protons, every launch option that matched my specs on protondb.

__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia %command% doesn't work at all.

It's not just a Linux issue. I read on steam, a guy only got Starfield to launch in windows after disabling his primary GPU in bios via MUX which sadly isn't an option for me.

I've tried everything but Wayland. If you've got some magic to try I'm all ears.

[–] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (8 children)

If you have a newer Nvidia card, Wayland works just fine, and more optimally than X in multi-monitor scenarios, as X locks the refresh rate to the lowest monitor's setting across the board.

I have a 3090 and Wayland lets me use all three of my monitors at their native refresh rates.

It's funny that you're bitching about the game being bad because it doesn't run on an OS it wasn't designed to run on. That's kind of a silly thing to get up in arms about. Linux gamers are lucky that Proton works as well as it does the majority of the time, and I think you've taken that aspect for granted.

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[–] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like it 🤷‍♂️

[–] tacosupreme@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I played it and really liked it. I did everything I could do with my first playthrough. I started ng+ but just couldn't continue. A bunch of cool systems in theory but just not enough substance. The copy and paste assets gave me fatigue. It scratched that Bethesda game but I am a bit disappointed. I really wonder why it took so long. It sorta feels like a bunch of reused elements from fallout. Like did they scrap a bunch? I've seen many more in depth games from smaller studies lately. On a side note I started playing Cyberpunk with new dlc afterwards and damn I really like that game

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