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It was with these exact settings, in fact, that allowed the GTX 1060 – a GPU several tiers below the Bethesda-approved minimums – to average 33fps on the busy streets of New Atlantis. I found 75% resolution scale usually provided a good balance between maintaining sharpness and raising performance, and it even looks okay-ish upscaling to 1080p. Instead of picking an upscaling quality mode, there’s a simple on/off toggle for FSR 2, and you manually set the initial render resolution scale yourself. Upscaling comes in particularly handy for boosting framerates at 1440p and 4K, though note that FSR 2 works differently in Starfield to how it normally does. I recommend installing that DLSS mod, if you’ve got an Nvidia GeForce RTX GPU that can actually use it, though FSR 2 is a serviceable alternative that will work on anything. So far, it’s only HDD usage that seems to introduce truly game-breaking issues.Īs for overall performance, Starfield does need relatively hench hardware to run smoothly. But with an SSD, it’s usually the kind of wonkiness that can be fixed with a quick load. I’ve seen companions get stuck on scenery, movement controls becoming jammed after exiting photo mode, and most annoyingly, the first-person camera somehow getting stuck so that it only points up. Starfield is still a Bethesda game, and still has Bethesda bugs. I’ve played for about a dozen hours more on an SSD than I have on an HDD, and absolutely none of those problems occurred for me with the solid state drive. Starfield genuinely is unplayable when installed on a hard drive, plagued by crashing, freezing, missing and desynced audio, interminable load times, and sluggish texture streaming. The most important bit here is that 'SSD required' is not just tough talk. Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT or Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080.Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X or Intel Core i5-10600K.

Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 5700 or Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Ti.Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X or Intel Core i7-6800K.

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If you missed the Starfield hype train, and are only now rolling in on the Starfield mild curiosity bus, it’s worth having a refresher on its PC system requirements. Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/Bethesda Softworks Starfield system requirements and PC performance Scroll down to the bottom section if you just want the best settings guide, or read on for the updated report on overall performance. Super-duper-high framerates are also tricky to achieve, even on spanking new graphics cards and heavily multithreaded CPUs, though you can give Starfield’s performance a boost with some fine-tuning of the visuals. Manage cookie settings Was Starfield worth the wait? Liam and Alice B discuss this question - and more - in the video above. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.

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