It’s rough on CPUs and GPUs. If CPU is below a certain threshold you are never getting above 30-40 fps no matter what. There are some performance mods you might want to try out. Most of them are just ini settings but some recompress textures and stuff. In a few months it should be possible to run Starfield while not looking too ugly on a low end system with mods.
This game runs like poop on anything but newer hardware so I highly doubt the crappy UI was developers being considerate of small screens and struggling CPUs and instead it’s probably because Bethesda games always have a shit inventory UI. This game’s inventory UI is a small step up from Fallout 4 but still no where near as good as the DEF_HUD or FallUI mods for Fallout 4.
The person that made FallUI (a solid UI mod for Fallout 4 that fixes inventory management amd other stuff) released a mod for Starfield’s inventory last night.
https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/773?tab=description
Can moderators can sticky/pin posts here? If so this probably should be stickied/pinned/whatever the fuck you call it here.
Was going to reply to your comment about SOTN but replying on Lemmy.world seems broken at the moment.
You can install EmuDeck and play SotN on the deck if you want. Not a metroidvania but Divinity Original Sin 2 runs great on the deck and it has a crap ton of replayability. Baldurs Gate 3 seems to also run well on the deck according to protondb. Protondb is great for checking game compatibility.
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