General Videogame Thread

[BimboBob]

Would appreciate some advice on how to work toward becoming more adept at upgrading. Which skills to invest in etc….seems a bit bewildering to me to start.

Depends on how you are playing. At the beginning most people say get the jet pack upgrades. After that...

Youtube!

 

[Blue Maverick]

Bloody hell it’s addictiv, I had to stop this morning I’m getting motion sickness with it, I hope that passes, I’ve had ot with other games like Quake and had to stop playing it! Done quite a few missions so now I think I’ll explore a bit, level 3 booster now and getting some decent equipment as well. I wish they had quick swap with weapons though.

 

[N1985]

Bloody hell it’s addictiv, I had to stop this morning I’m getting motion sickness with it, I hope that passes, I’ve had ot with other games like Quake and had to stop playing it! Done quite a few missions so now I think I’ll explore a bit, level 3 booster now and getting some decent equipment as well. I wish they had quick swap with weapons though.

Have you assigned you're weapons to the dpad? You're right its like video game crack

 

[Blue Maverick]

Have you assigned you're weapons to the dpad? You're right its like video game crack

Ye mate but you have to go into that to select I’d prefer like Y button that just cycles like in normal FPS

 

[N1985]

Ye mate but you have to go into that to select I’d prefer like Y button that just cycles like in normal FPS

Fair enough. Give it a bit of time and they'll definitely patch it when they've got relevant feedback. It's the best game from day 1 I've played. Definitely worth the extra few months wait. Menus do feel clunky at times

 

[SebastianBlue]

Found a video of @SWP's back.

 

[SWP's back]

It's a shame you have to pay to host an iRacing server for messing about but I understand why, I'm gonna sub to the basic too so if you want to join some rookie stuff let us know.

Be interested to compare DD settings, I find it much faster with lower feedback but much easier to make mistakes when it's turned down.

If you’re just starting out, I hear Sambo iRacing on YouTube does some decent guides for the Rookie Formula Vee…..

Side note, it’s Week 13 of the season right now (the officials and Championship runs from week 1-12 and week 13 is basically mayhem as there’s no iRating or Safety Rating on offer or at stake).

Week 1 of Season 4 2023 will start around midnight UK next Monday night. If you do join up before then just practice and run the ‘Battle of the Littlewings’ in the Vee this week to learn the car. It’s more mad than the officials but worth the practice without damaging either of your ratings.

 

[ultimateharold]

If you’re just starting out, I hear Sambo iRacing on YouTube does some decent guides for the Rookie Formula Vee…..

Side note, it’s Week 13 of the season right now (the officials and Championship runs from week 1-12 and week 13 is basically mayhem as there’s no iRating or Safety Rating on offer or at stake).

Week 1 of Season 4 2023 will start around midnight UK next Monday night. If you do join up before then just practice and run the ‘Battle of the Littlewings’ in the Vee this week to learn the car. It’s more mad than the officials but worth the practice without damaging either of your ratings.

Funny you should say that, had been watching those videos. Didn't know about that no rating for this week, will give it a go later.

 

[SebastianBlue]

If you’re just starting out, I hear Sambo iRacing on YouTube does some decent guides for the Rookie Formula Vee…..

Side note, it’s Week 13 of the season right now (the officials and Championship runs from week 1-12 and week 13 is basically mayhem as there’s no iRating or Safety Rating on offer or at stake).

Week 1 of Season 4 2023 will start around midnight UK next Monday night. If you do join up before then just practice and run the ‘Battle of the Littlewings’ in the Vee this week to learn the car. It’s more mad than the officials but worth the practice without damaging either of your ratings.

Won’t confirm nor deny the video I posted of your purported setup? ;-)

 

[SebastianBlue]

The modder released it (Starfield UpScaler for those that want to use it) after I posted.

Alas, it is more half DLSS, as although the graphics look slightly better, no one has found any performance boosts from it compared to normal native DLSS.

I installed it yesterday and played a bit and the biggest improvements seem to be occlusion rendering and the included ReShader helping with textures and pop-in. I am running on Ultra on a 3050ti (8 GB), performance overclock, high TP SSD, with Starfield realtime thread priority on my i5-12500H (16 GB DDR5), and am seeing solid 45 FPS, with drop down to 30 FPS in places, and 60 FPS when in non-taxing interiors. I may drop it to High and 67% Resolution Render (which becomes 50% Performance Balance when using the DLSS mod) to see if I can get a consistent 60 FPS.

It is definitely a Bethesda game in that it isn’t optimised well (Creation engine makes that very difficult), made worse by their exclusive deal with AMD, which doesn’t make much sense for their market, given ~75% of those playing Starfield will be on Nvidia GPUs and native DLSS3.5 would work wonders for game performance.

Still, better than nothing, I suppose.

Update: I had to disable the DLSS UpScaler mod as it was causing all sort of performance and graphical issues. At first it seemed to marginally improve rendering resolution, with no real performance improvement (widely reported for those using the mod). But after five or so hours of play I started to see significant drops in FPS in areas I had previously had no real issues in, texture and asset pop-in, and—most frustratingly—render freezes, where a still image was displayed, whilst my character was still moving about in the world.

I tried hard restarting my computer and tweaking the mod settings but it didn’t seem to make much difference. Once I disabled the mod the issues went away, and I honestly don’t really miss the slight improvement in rendering; I just dropped quality settings to High and set the Render Resolution higher to get nearly the same effect.

Seems others have also run in to the issues, which the modder is looking in to.

Until the mod is improved (and DLSS 3.5 support isn’t behind a pay wall, as the free mod is only DLSS 2) I will give it a miss.

Really hope Bethesda update Starfield to includes native DLSS 3.5 support, especially given the vast majority of those playing on PC will be on Nvidia GPUs.

The AMD exclusivity deal makes less and less sense the more you scrutinise it.