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.

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.

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