ixiAllow others to be open alfa testers. Be happy and play something else, like Baldurs Gate 3!

evernessinceYes, and unlike Starfield Baulder's Gate 3 doesn't use predatory tactics like staggering release dates depending on which edition of the game you purchased. Ridiculous that we have $70 AAA games where you have to pay $30 on top of that to play on what should otherwise be the normal release date.

Solaris17It consumes a tonnnnn of RAM. this post is from my system.

www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/starfield-discussion-thread.313016/post-5091955

A warning for those out there, steam still clocks your time. So with the 2 hour policy if you wait like 40min for a broken splash to appear keep that in mind! I personally wont be returning the game but I know some of you out there might feel stuck!

Starfield is an AMD sponsored game and both Bethesda and Microsoft have received some criticism for this. Accusations that this sponsorship "locked out" developers at Intel's graphics division from working on usable drivers have been thrown around the likes of Reddit and X, but no evidence to support them has so far surfaced. Many will be quick to point out that NVIDIA released a preliminary driver for Starfield as early as August 22nd, so such interference is unlikely.

Starfield is an AMD sponsored game and both Bethesda and Microsoft have received some criticism for this. Accusations that this sponsorship "locked out" developers at Intel's graphics division from working on usable drivers have been thrown around the likes of Reddit and X, but no evidence to support them has so far surfaced. Many will be quick to point out that NVIDIA released a preliminary driver for Starfield as early as August 22nd, so such interference is unlikely.

john_Do we need to repeat this propaganda forever? Did sponsoring a game became sudently a thing for criticism after decades of game sponsoring, just because it is AMD??? And yes "many" will point at Nvidia hardware running the game properly. That's not just an counter argument. We throw posts from reddit and X as probable facts and then Nvidia as a somewhat valid counter argument? No. Posts from reddit and X could easily be posts from fanboys and trolls. Nvidia hardware running the game perfectly, is a fact. NO BLOCKING of DLSS and XeSS mod is also true. I think people already downloading those. We might see an official support in the near future.

We all know that Intel's hardware and drivers still need polishing. Give them time. They'll fix it in the end.

PS JMO, sorry if the way put is not the best.

AusWolfYeah, AMD had to do evening they could to lock Intel out from providing support for the game, because they're (Intel) such a big player in the GPU market. Obviously. Boy, I love conspiracy theories! :roll:

oxrufiioxoYou know AMD are the evil overlords swatting Intel Drivers with one hand and DLSS with the other while sporting a shite eating grin going muahhahaahha!!!!

All joking aside my bet is on Intel screwing this up.

FouquinSponsoring games has always attracted criticism. You must not have been around with the "How It's Meant To Be Played" era.

FouquinComplete hearsay which is why it's not in the OP: apparently Intel didn't have access to an early copy for evaluation.

No source for it, and it's really hard to justify why they wouldn't get an advanced copy. But Bethesda was sending out press kits in shotgun fashion and generally bungling the launch of Starfield, it really would not surprise me if they simply forgot. No malice, just awful execution.

FouquinSponsoring games has always attracted criticism. You must not have been around with the "The Way it's Meant To Be Played" era. When everyone lovingly referred to it as "The Way It's Meant To Be Paid"

Fouquinapparently Intel didn't have access to an early copy for evaluation.

Solaris17It is wild to me, that some like 20yr/o kid streaming on twitch can get a copy of the game early but Intel's engineering division cannot.

oxrufiioxoYou know AMD are the evil overlords swatting Intel Drivers with one hand and DLSS with the other while sporting a shite eating grin going muahhahaahha!!!!

All joking aside my bet is on Intel screwing this up.

john_That's how AMD got that bad reputation. Before AMD got the consoles, games where written and optimised on Intel and Nvidia hardware. The first demo XBOX machines from Microsoft where PCs running Intel and Nvidia hardware. So, games where coming out with no optimization on AMD hardware and probably minimal testing on AMD hardware. Radeon cards where experiencing crushes and non optimal performance and everyone was accusing AMD for that. A month latter drivers where out, a patch or two where out, everything was working on AMD, but apparently the damage was done.

AusWolfSounds plausible, but nah... I'm pretty sure the reptile people overlords are behind this. :roll:


You know how it is. If the game runs worse on AMD, it's AMD's fault because "drivers are bad" or whatnot. If it runs better on AMD, it's also AMD's fault for locking everyone else out of the game. Because they rule the entirety of the gaming industry with a 101% market share. Obviously. ;)

Chrispy_Thanks for beta-testing it for me chaps. I'll install once it's had a couple of months of major bugfixes.

oxrufiioxoThey worried Nvidia enough to drop the 4060ti 16GB 50 usd in the states at least I was mildly surprised.

evernessinceYes, and unlike Starfield Baulder's Gate 3 doesn't use predatory tactics like staggering release dates depending on which edition of the game you purchased. Ridiculous that we have $70 AAA games where you have to pay $30 on top of that to play on what should otherwise be the normal release date.

Chrispy_Ridiculous indeed, but MILLIONS OF IDIOTS ACTUALLY PAY EXTRA TO BETA-TEST AN UNFINISHED, BROKEN GAME.

Betas used to be free, because the feedback was valuable to the developer. It's still valuable to the developer but somewhere along the line they worked out that plenty of gamers with fat wallets, zero self-control, and no patience will throw money at them to beta test.

Don't blame the developer, blame idiot gamers who not only support this with their wallets, but are the original source of the problem in the first place.

Vayra86This. Predators exist because they get fed.

Its rather similar to trolls and social media. 'Muh pre loaded game'... yeah. Idiots.

AusWolfIt's not just the why's, but also the how's that I don't understand. I mean, I've got about 2-300 games on Steam that I've never played, and there's currently about 5-10 waiting in line for me to finish Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Even when I finish a game, these lists keep growing and growing. By the time I get to actually playing Starfield, it'll probably be on sale for 5 quid. I barely have time to play anything, and I've only got a normal 40-hour job, nothing fancy. How other people have time to play everything on day one is beyond me.

Vayra86The key driver for most of this bullshit is younger generations. I remember myself back then, I wasn't much different :p I managed to burn over 2000 hours in WoW in a single year, go figure; that's equal to the 'load' of a full school year (so yes, sleeping wasn't a priority to make that fit).