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OS Neutral StarField (Bethesda 2023, Spoilers)
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I appreciate the offer, I'm going to play with it a bit more.
Ok, I just swapped out my 4k Monitor to my slightly smaller 2k Monitor, told GeForce Experience to optimize and everything went from low to high and even ultra. Thanks for the lesson! 🥳 Later today, I'll start the game and take a look for anything obvious. I'm not happy with this volumetric fog issue and will be looking at the mods I mentioned in my previous post (FOV, and FSRS Bridge to replace FSR2 with DLSS or XeSS). What I'd be worried about would be a Starfield patch that breaks the mod... 🤔
The issue if you want to call it that is there is no narrative in a game like No Man’s Sky at least not the kind of over arching narrative that you see in a story game like Fallout 4, Cyberpunk 2077, or Starfield. I don’t mean to be overly critical. Let me reword that, No Man’s Sky is more of a sandbox, while the narrative games I just mentioned spend a lot of time crafting a specific story, that we opt into with the ability to change some of the story as to how it work out.
When I started it long ago, NMS felt primarily like a base builder, like ARK or Conan Exiles. And I’ve had much fun with both of those games, but NMS arrived at the tail end of those, and I was getting burned out With that format.
What you don’t see there are the in-depth AAA narratives. Since I’ve played NMS, quests have been added, what kind of depth do they have? Note, I’m not saying this in an accusatory manner, like it could’nt be possibly as good. I did watch the video posted in this thread, and there are things to do, but I’m not seeing a lot of NPC dialog interaction. Maybe I need to look harder? 🤔
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TBH I'd dump the GeForce Experience. Set everything to max then dial back to acquire the desired FPS. I also bet the "fog" is due to some incompatibility with your system and as you switch effects on/off you'll likely find the culprit.I appreciate the offer, I'm going to play with it a bit more.
Ok, I just swapped out my 4k Monitor to my slightly smaller 2k Monitor, told GeForce Experience to optimize and everything went from low to high and even ultra. Thanks for the lesson! 🥳 Later today, I'll start the game and take a look for anything obvious. I'm not happy with this volumetric fog issue and will be looking at the mods I mentioned in my previous post (FOV, and FSRS Bridge to replace FSR2 with DLSS or XeSS). What I'd be worried about would be a Starfield patch that breaks the mod... 🤔
The issue if you want to call it that is there is no narrative in a game like No Man’s Sky at least not the kind of over arching narrative that you see in a story game like Fallout 4, Cyberpunk 2077, or Starfield. I don’t mean to be overly critical. Let me reword that, No Man’s Sky is more of a sandbox, while the narrative games I just mentioned spend a lot of time crafting a specific story, that we opt into with the ability to change some of the story as to how it work out.
When I started it long ago, NMS felt primarily like a base builder, like ARK or Conan Exiles. And I’ve had much fun with both of those games, but NMS arrived at the tail end of those, and I was getting burned out With that format.
What you don’t see there are the in-depth AAA narratives. Since I’ve played NMS, quests have been added, what kind of depth do they have? Note, I’m not saying this in an accusatory manner, like it could’nt be possibly as good. I did watch the video posted in this thread, and there are things to do, but I’m not seeing a lot of NPC dialog interaction. Maybe I need to look harder? 🤔
NMS has evolved tremendously with now many quests, alternatively you can just do your own thing in isolation or online with others. Very much a game that you can tailor to your own individual style. Only thing I dont like is the initial gameplay/tutorial which takes time to get through.
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Like I said, I watched a video posted in this thread about optimized settings and what I saw in the video was exactly what I was experiencing, blah lighting So at this point I’m thinking it is game issue. I found a post at Steam about how to use GeForce Experience filter where brightness and contrast can be changed as a filter that can easily be turned on or off and see what kind of results I get. One thing the guy in the optimized settings video said was that for a AAA game, Starfield is missing a lot of basic display settings like gamma correction which he described as a fail on Bethesda’s part.
Costs nothing but time and you may be surprised by the results
Every PC is unique in it's setup hence why it's always worth taking the time to manually tune the graphic fidelity of games. Going with 2K will be the biggest factor, even the GeForce Experience in it's clumsy manner illustrates this.If others are playing with clarity the fault lies with the system or more to the point settings. Problem with AAA games today is they are ever more focused towards consoles, hence the lack of settings for the more capable PC's. The big AAA dev studios just follow the $$$ trail
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Nothing wrong with the game. It's your PC that needs to be upgraded because it's a next-gen game.
Starfield Runs Fine, You Just Need To Upgrade Your PC
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I got it running on high, my video card is last Gen, I watched the video which shows examples of the game on up to date hardware, and it looks crappy there too.Nothing wrong with the game. It's your PC that needs to be upgraded because it's a next-gen game.
Starfield Runs Fine, You Just Need To Upgrade Your PC
In a recent enlightening interview with Bloomberg Technology, Todd Howard, the figurehead of Bethesda, and Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox, opened up about the intricacies of their newly launched sp…
He does give specific settings. I think you are confusing the intentional color palette for fog?I just watched this video and of all things it showed me that the graphics I'm seeing in the video match what I'm seeing in the game which often looks cruddy, yellowish, muddy and foggy. Most of the street and environment scene have this volumetric fog effect. This is a real disappointment. I want clear and unmuddied colors in the textures instead. Whoever the art director is I question the choices made. The good news is that what I'm seeing in the game is not a problem on my end, it's more of a problem with the game itself.
Secondly I was dissapointed because I thought in advance the Narrator was going to go down a list of what he thought was the optimized settings for a variety of hardware, while looking at the Settings Menu in Starfield and making specific recommendations. He did not do this, he just droned on about generalities. I'm looking for something that directly addresses specific settings for my hardware and GPU.
However for @Spaceboi Scaphandre a comment was made about feeling dizzy because of the FOV, and I experienced this a little. I am going to go look for a FOV mod and possibly the FSRS Bridge to Replace FSR2 with DlSS or XeSS Mod.
It needs to be next-gen says Bethesda. They've released a game for unreleased cards. 😄
I already linked some mods to those in your other Starfield thread
I definitely recommend spending some time early in the game tweaking, changing and testing the results.Costs nothing but time and you may be surprised by the results
I found for my RX 7800, I'm perfectly happy with the medium settings, and in fact that Digital Foundry video linked in this thread shows that with medium settings you're largely getting the Xbox setting.
I do wonder if the game was heavily optimized for the Xbox and they had less time to make large improvements on the PC - I'm just guessing.
Overall, I'm happy with game performance. I think many of us get too bogged down in the specific settings and wanting a perfect experience, or expect our specific card to operate in such a way that it becomes obsessive. Its just a game after all, so configure the game to give you the level of details and performance and then enjoy it
I probably could have spent another hour or two tweaking the game, or I could have spent that playing the game - I chose the latter.
I’ve spent ages trying to adjust my OLED TV to get the best picture with the Xbox version. There are so many lighting effects that it’s been tough. The gloomy lighting in The Well, the bright daylight and darkness at night while on the planet's surface to the washed-out office-style lighting on The Den station - but it is intentionally very stylised. Having zero graphic settings is rough though.
Have to say I love every minute of this vast game (except for the awful inventory system).
Have to say I love every minute of this vast game (except for the awful inventory system).
Yeah, that's Bethesda at its best, the level of detail and lore found in the most innocuous places is mind blowing
I will agree, I think the inventory system is cumbersome at best.
If he gave them I missed them. I’ll look again. It’s not as pressing as I got my graphic settings up to high and ultra. There are several effects I was seeing on the 4k monitor, one looked like volumetric fog that covered everything, and separately they're using color filters because I found a Neutral Lux Mod, not really a mod, but ini settings to remove the game’s color filters and replace them with more neutral colors. Since I scaled down to a 2k monitor, these effects don’t seem to be nearly as onerous.
I read that FSR has issues and someone, not sure if Blizzard or an independent is working on DSLL for the game which is reported to be superior.
For Geforce Experience, for any one who uses it, you can hit ALT+ F3 and window pops up on the left of the screen, with graphic adjustments such as a brightnesss, gamma, contrast, shadows, which works well.There are multiple sets that configured and then toggled on or off. Pretty slick.
I saw that and added to post 1.
Thanks. I was shocked how much of a difference that makes. Instead of an official mod, to alter FOV, you can just add a custom ini file to the game.
After 60 hours, I have officially beaten the game completing the main story. But this isn't the end. Far from it. Once you beat the main story the game gets even better. I can't say how it does as it's a massive spoiler, but what I can say is your jaw is gonna drop like mine did. I'm gonna end up logging so many hours into this game.
Although Baldur's Gate 3 is probably gonna win Game of the Year, in my heart Starfield is my GOTY. It was worth the wait through and through. Mark my words, this game is gonna become the next Skyrim. It's gonna age like the finest of wines with time.
Although Baldur's Gate 3 is probably gonna win Game of the Year, in my heart Starfield is my GOTY. It was worth the wait through and through. Mark my words, this game is gonna become the next Skyrim. It's gonna age like the finest of wines with time.
Developer Explains Why Starfield NPCs Look Like They’re Dead Inside
The eyes have it.
I don't know about issues, but for me with the AMD drivers, FSR is causing the game to crash. I have medium settings for most things and FSR turned off - I'm getting around 60+ FPS (I've stopped tracking FPS so I forget what exactly). Once AMD fixes that bug, I'll look to boost the quality to high with FSR.
Overall I'm pretty happy with the visuals, but admittedly I'm not getting that fog thing you're dealing with.
Tiny Starfield hack lets you leave your ship and explore space
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Not a hack. It's a mod.
The interesting thing is the fact he was able to build an outpost on an asteroid. I smell potential DLC~
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