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Starfield Is Seemingly Missing Entire Stars (the local 'sun') When Running On AMD Radeon GPUs (wccftech.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by geosoco@kbin.social to c/PCGaming@kbin.social

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So a user on Reddit 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.

Original reddit post by u/Yoraxx

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So they just get Field?

[–] bafomdad@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

a field of dreams

[–] BudgieMania@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Some more conclusions as we get more data from other users:

On some 6 and 7 Series AMD cards, it works just fine

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Few Nvidia Cards also have this issue
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Xbox seems not affected
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Hhhhmmmm so it's not so much AMD specific as it is something that happens under conditions that are more likely to happen under AMD I guess. Interesting.

[–] geosoco@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I linked to the article I found it, but included the reddit post below from u/Yoraxx.

I've honestly been too busy looting useless shit to even notice.

[–] LennethAegis@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

AMD literally gave away Starfield as a promotion for this line of graphic cards. This error is just embarrassing to let slip. I guess I'll hold off on playing this game until I hear the issue is resolved.