So a user on Reddit (ed: u/Yoraxx ) posted on the Starfield subreddit that there was a problem in Starfield when running the game on an AMD Radeon GPU. The issue is very simple, the game just won’t render a star in any solar system when you are at the dayside of a moon or even any planetary object. The issue only occurs on AMD Radeon GPUs and users with the Radeon RX 7000 & RX 6000 GPUs are reporting the same thing.
The issue is that the dayside of any planetary body or moon needs a source of light that gets it all lit up. That source is the star and on any non-AMD GPU, you will see the star/sun in the sky box which will be illuminating light on the surface. But with AMD cards, the star/sun just isn’t there while the planet/moon remains illuminated without any light source.
And here I was just reading that AMD GPUs showed much better performance in Starfield. Maybe it’s because they’re just not rendering stuff at all lmao
Can confirm it’s the same on Proton / Linux. This game keeps being a joke on the technical side.
Waaaaait… it was a bug and not gross incompetence?
“Bethesda’s Bug”, when you can’t tell if something isn’t working correctly or if it’s just not implemented at all.
I don’t think we know.
Makes me wonder of the dev team is on a much-needed vacation or if they only run nvidia gpus. lol
The game runs better on AMD, and Bethesda partnered with AMD in some way for this PC release.
Does it run better by not rendering light emitting objects?
It can be both
If it’s down to very specific Chipsets, that sounds like an unforseeable bug.
Correction: someone pointed out they are literally interfacing the graphics drivers the wrong way, so it’s still on the their Devs.
Now it is just Field.
Ugh. A part of me wants to give AMD a chance for my next upgrade and push back against Nvidia’s near-monopoly of GPUs but I really don’t want to deal with how everything kinda-sorta works on Radeons.
I’ve exclusively been on AMD since like 2015 and my GPUs “kinda-sorta working” has not been my experience at all lol. Literally have never had brand-specific problems. The only brand-specific issues I’ve had were trying to get my laptop with an Nvidia GPU to work properly under Linux.
I’ve exclusively used AMD GPU’s since building my first PC 27 years ago. I’m not aware of things “kinda-sorta” not working.
You make it sound like nvidia has never pushed out a kinda sorta works driver.
I have a suspicion that developers do less testing, optimization, and bugfixing for AMD cards due to reduced market share and that’s why more of these brand-specific coding errors slip through for them. It’s unfortunate but I can’t deny I’ve seen some weird bugs in my time.
How can an AMD sponsored game that litteraly runs better on all AMD GPU vs their NVIDIA counterpart, doesn’t embark any tech that may unfavor AMD GPU can be less QA-ed on AMD GPUs because of market share?
This game IS better optimized on AMD. It has FSR2 enabled by default on all graphics presets. That particular take especially doesn’t work for this game.
Oh of course. I don’t actually blame AMD for those kinds of bugs. But it’s the reality as a user, at least in my experience… but it’s been like stupid long time since I’ve used a machine with an AMD card.
