Starfield recommended PC specs / Discussion

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Starfield Will Not Have Mod Support On PC At Launch

Pete Hine has confirmed in a recent interview that Starfield will have no mod support at launch, but it will be added after release.
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Speaking in a recent interview with Vandal, Pete Hines has confirmed that Starfield will not have mod support on PC at launch, but there will be mods after launch. Todd Howard said a while ago that the game will have ā€œfull mod supportā€ similar to Bethesdaā€˜s other games. Hines specified that they havenā€™t expanded on when exactly that will be, but players will get mods on both PC and Xbox after launch.

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The processor is not the bottleneck of the test system, it is the graphics card. Starfield places extremely high demands on the performance of the GPU. These are at least comparable to current games with Unreal Engine 5. Even a cyberpunk - but without overdrive path tracing - is not significantly more demanding. At the latest, Starfield heralds the next generation of graphics cards. The RTX 3080 installed in the PC games test computer (after all, the upper class model of the last Nvidia graphics card series) barely delivers more than 30 fps with maximum details in demanding environments .
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-1080p-No FSR-

3700X+6700XT:
-Medium = 52fps Avg, 33fps 1% Low
-High = 50fps Avg, 31fps 1% Low
-Ultra = 45fps Avg, 31fps 1% Low

5600X+6700XT:
-Medium = 61fps Avg, 43fps 1% Low
-High = 53fps Avg, 40fps 1% Low
-Ultra = 46fps Avg, 35fps 1% Low

At the Medium preset you get a 17% increase in average frame rate, and 30% increase in 1% Lows going from a 3700X to a 5600X. At High and Ultra presets there's only a 6% and 2% increase in average frame rate, respectively. However, there was a 29% and 13% increase in 1% Lows at those presets.
 
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karmakid said:
Would this be suitable?


My brother-in-law wants to get it for my niece but wants to at least play SF when itā€™s free šŸ˜† heā€™s not a hardcore pc gamer, plays mostly LOL and fortnite on his laptop, rarely but when he does itā€™s for a good minute šŸ˜‚
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I think you can play at low to medium settings with that GPU at 1440p. With a 4070/ti, you can get medium to high with 1440p at 60 ish.
 
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- intel GPUs do not work, known issue and intel claims to have a driver that will be ready for release
- benchmarks disabled FSR/VRS/vsync
- looked for scenes with heavy load but not the absolute worst performing scenes, looked for typical but dense gameplay environments

Framerate across sample run on 4060Ti (oof: drops into single digits)

1% lows in the 30s regardless of GPU or resolution or quality, not that good optimization.
 
DriedMangoes said:


- intel GPUs do not work, known issue and intel claims to have a driver that will be ready for release
- benchmarks disabled FSR/VRS/vsync
- looked for scenes with heavy load but not the absolute worst performing scenes, looked for typical but dense gameplay environments

Framerate across sample run on 4060Ti (oof: drops into single digits)

1% lows in the 30s regardless of GPU or resolution or quality, not that good optimization.
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Howā€™s it running on your pc, are you enjoying it?
 
Iā€™ve only played 6 hours on PC version but so far I am loving it. I am a big Bethesda fan, been playing their games since Morrowind so I was really excited for Starfield.

Was a little worried that my pc wouldnā€™t handle it as my CPU was lower spec than the minimum that they recommended, but I was pleased when it was up and running and the preset for my system was all settings on high and runs super smooth and looks beautiful.

For those interested my PC specs are -

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz

31 94 GB RAM

3440 x 1440, 60HZ monitor

Also only seems a couple bugs so far in 6 hours. A floating head and body in Atlantis, and a space pirate overreacted when I stabbed him, he went flying šŸ˜‚

All in all its fantastic so far and I canā€™t wait to play this all weekend.
 
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badmonk said:
Iā€™ve only played 6 hours on PC version but so far I am loving it. I am a big Bethesda fan, been playing their games since Morrowind so I was really excited for Starfield.

Was a little worried that my pc wouldnā€™t handle it as my CPU was lower spec than the minimum that they recommended, but I was pleased when it was up and running and the preset for my system was all settings on high and runs super smooth and looks beautiful.

For those interested my PC specs are -

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz

31 94 GB RAM

3440 x 1440, 60HZ monitor

Also only seems a couple bugs so far in 6 hours. A floating head and body in Atlantis, and a space pirate overreacted when I stabbed him, he went flying šŸ˜‚

All in all its fantastic so far and I canā€™t wait to play this all weekend.
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Good to hear.

You have a better GPU than me but I also have a lower res native monitor so hopefully it will be smooth for me too.
 
Intel has acknowledged that its Arc Alchemist GPUs, some of the best graphics cards, are having severe issues running Bethesda's new space RPG Starfield ā€” precisely trouble launching the game. According to Intel, a driver update will be ready for the game's release next week on September 5 to fix these issues. Still, sadly, this means there won't be any immediate support during the remainder of Starfield's early access period.

Problems running Starfield on Arc graphics cards are as bad as it gets. One problem is that Intel has still not released a game-ready driver update supporting Starfield ā€” unlike Nvidia and AMD. Even worse, according to several responses on Intel's post, the game won't even start on current Arc drivers, making the game completely unplayable on Intel's discrete GPUs.


This wouldn't be the first time something like this happened. Intel had encountered this problem a few times with previous game releases where its game-ready drivers broke at the very last minute when the game released a launch-day patch to iron out bugs and optimize the game. This would make sense in Starfield's case because a massive 15GB patch went live a few days ago, right before the game's release, which could have broken Intel's driver update it was potentially working on.

 
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Pureshooter said:
CPU utilization jumps up by 60%. It really points to why the consoles are locked at 30 FPS.
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The console CPUs are pretty weak by modern standards. 8 (6 available to games) Zen 2 cores doesn't really mean much when it's a neutered, down clocked laptop version of Zen 2. They aren't as fast as desktop Zen 2, not even close.
 
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Goddamn, there is a sale at Lenovo now for a 13700kf/4080 build that is like 42% off... to buy or not to buy šŸ§šŸ§šŸ§
 
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Looking at the 13700kf/4080 model, with the extra discounts , it comes out to about $2500 after tax and everything which is basically like 45% , almost 50% off regular MSRP.

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DriedMangoes said:
Looking at the 13700kf/4080 model, with the extra discounts , it comes out to about $2500 after tax and everything which is basically like 45% , almost 50% off regular MSRP.

Legion Tower 7i Gen 8 (Intel) | Competition-ready tower gaming PC powered by IntelĀ®

Strap in for an elite PC gaming experience with the Legion Tower 7i Gen 8 (Intel), equipped with IntelĀ® Coreā„¢ processors and NVIDIAĀ® GeForce RTXā„¢ 40 Series GPUs.
www.lenovo.com
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Awe must be a Canada only sale

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