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Re:Analyzing Starfield’s Performance on Nvidia’s 4090 and AM... by formerly_proven on Friday September 15, 2023 @04:49AM (#37520226)
> for what you get, the performance is horrid.

Well Starfield is the n-th iteration of Bethesda hacking on their Gamebryo fork, and this has always been true (Fallout 4 - Skyrim - Oblivion). Not that these were bad looking games in their day, but they always kinda ran like dog.

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Re:Analyzing Starfield’s Performance on Nvidia’s 4090 and AM... by wongarsu on Friday September 15, 2023 @05:07AM (#37520330)
They weren't bad looking, but neither of those games were celebrated as graphical masterpieces either. As far back as I can remember, Bethesda has always made games with behind-the-curve but acceptable graphics, with bad performance and lots of bugs. It's the incredible moddability that justified all of this, with mods elevating those games to great graphics, as well as eventually fixing any other shortcomings.
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Re:Analyzing Starfield’s Performance on Nvidia’s 4090 and AM... by brucethemoose2 on Friday September 15, 2023 @12:00PM (#37525080)
Oblivion was more cutting edge at the time, and it sheer scale (along with Morrowind's) was quite unique.
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