Well if devs chose the engine. I'd argue it's still on the devs. But visually the game can be striking at times and there is zero stutter. Like if you play a game like Jedi Survivor and this game back to back, Starfield will feel worlds better.

Creation Engine 2.

It's still an evolution/refinement of NetImmerse from 1997.

Using older and refined game engines is actually common industry practice.

For example the latest Call of Duty engine has code snippets from Quakes engine, they make yearly improvements/refinement.

Even Frostbite and Unreal do the same thing, hence why UE5 has a ton of backwards compatibility with UE4.

All comes down to developer competency in the end.

Good thing you've got an all or nothing guy here.

If that's water tight, let's see them use the same engines for 100-200 more years.

https://youtu.be/sgNyDjjDCD4?t=28

That "mouse" doesn't look very ergonomic to me. The analog stick and the face buttons seem to be in the way and the mouse buttons are very small. Just use a fricking normal mouse of your choice in docked mode!

Nice gimmick for kickstand mode, all you need is in the case... but I never liked the kickstand modes of handhelds, the small display is too far away.

Gamers Nexus did a comparison with multiple GPU's from AMD/Nvidia

Not sure if the results were CPU bound (12700KF was used) but Nvidia GPU's clearly a little behind in this game.

September 1st and prior progress

Final Fantasy VI (Steam/PC) - Lv 17 at 10 hours in. Finally got a hold of Summons/Espers, progression going through quick. Just got past one of the best iconic moments in FFVI.

Street Fighter V (Steam/PC) - just finished Street Fighter IV portion of the Arcade. Started on SFV's arcade portion. 2 characters out of 45 played at 27 hours.

Borderlands GOTY Enhanced (Steam/PC) - finally finished the Arid Badlands, did a few missions in Dahl Headlands, I can go to the next area but I'm going to finish all the missions. Lv 22 Support Soldier at 17 hours

Since DF is taking their sweet ass time, here is HUBs optimization guide. It is amusing how so many people were claiming that FSR would kill DLSS back in the day just because FSR is open and works on every GPU while DLSS is closed and works only on RTX gpus. Fast forward to today where even on AMDs highest sponsored title that was optimized by Radeon enginners, the recommendation from reviewers is to turn FSR 2 off cause it looks bad and has tons of artifacting. Really goes to show that if a technology is garbage, it doesn't matter if it's open and works on every GPU, people will simply not use it.

You are were still at Arid Badlands? You're taking your sweet time. I hope you visit every location that there is.

In my case, I finished XCOM 2, toyed a bit with a couple of MegaDrive/Genesis games (nothing too serious, just to waste some time), started and finished "Bud Spencer & Terence Hill - Slaps And Beans" playing as Bud Spencer, I'll go back some time to beat it as Terence Hill, and now I'm halfway through Rocketbirds 2 Evolution.

For some reason I'm not in the mood for long games, that's why I'm going with short ones.

The one thing I am really not on board with, is the guy who made the DLSS mod is charging access to it via his patreon, and you need to be constantly subbed to that to retain access to future updates for it.

Paid modding gets a hell naw from me, just like it did back when Todd tried to get Valve to roll with it back in the day. Tip jars are fine and still serviceable to this day.

Yea agreed. That guy did release a free version but that only has DLSS 2/XeSS. DLSS 3 is still locked behind patreon and due to how CPU limited Starfield is, DLSS 3 would make the biggest difference. What's funny is because Starfield doesn't have any DRM, pirate sites have DLSS modded in too but even those are locked behind patreon lul, just from the person that made the pirated version available and not from the creator of the mod. So even piraters are getting in on that nonsense.