Starfield stars go out due to major AMD Radeon GPU issue

Regardless of AMD being the official PC Starfield companion, Reddit customers have been experiencing a serious rendering bug that solely appears to have an effect on AMD Radeon GPUs. Put merely, this AMD GPU Starfield stars bug means some large stars merely aren’t rendering on rigs rocking AMD Radeon RX 7000 or 6000-series graphics cards in sure circumstances.

A serious side of Bethesda’s house exploration RPG is, effectively, exploring house, and discovering secret worlds hidden amid the celebs. Nothing breaks immersion just like the random disappearance of monumental balls of boiling gasoline!

In a well-liked Reddit put up titled ‘Pricey AMD Card Person,’, u/Yoraxx particulars this disappearing star bug that appears to solely plague AMD Radeon GPUs. They provide the instance of touring in-game to ‘the dayside of a moon with out environment,’ and looking into the sky. They first present an image of the skybox in that situation rendered with an AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT, which appears regular sufficient till you see the identical skybox rendered with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. The outcomes are stark.

The latter image is similar however for the presence of an infinite, shining star, full with a lens flare JJ Abrams could be pleased with, which was completely absent from the RX 7900 XT model. u/Yoraxx goes on to present one other instance from a planet with an environment, the place the outcomes are the identical.

Apparently, the sunshine and shadow results are nonetheless current as if the solar is there, however the celestial physique itself simply doesn’t seem. u/Yoraxx speculates that “that is more likely to be an issue with ALL newer AMD 6000 and 7000 Sequence playing cards.”

We reached out to AMD for remark and are awaiting a response from the corporate.

Contemplating the embarrassment this might trigger to each AMD and Bethesda if this story have been to get main traction, it’s possible Bethesda will repair this difficulty in an upcoming patch, or AMD may repair it in a later drive. Or the businesses may go away it as much as the modding group, which has executed glorious work on Starfield already. Try this information to the best Starfield weapon mods in case you fancy giving your weapons some main firepower upgrades.

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