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Starfield is a “bizarrely worse experience” on Nvidia and Intel, says Digital Foundry
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this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2023
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I want to know how the hell I am lucky enough to not have any real performance or graphical issues...
I'm not even using a supported GPU (1660 Super) and it's still very playable with the lowest fps being 27 and the highest being about 70.
Outside is on the low end. Interiors are higher, with empty interiors (IE no NPCs) being the fastest. Just dropping a single NPC into a space I am getting 72 fps in drops the frame rate to 50. NPCs aren't handled by the GPU; they are CPU bound.
My CPU is a Ryzen 5 3600x; the exact AMD chip Bethesda lists as the recommended. In fact, other than my GPU, the rest of my system meets recommended requirements.
Edit: I kinda wonder if it's simply how things are tested in QA. For years, I see users claiming to have high end systems having tons of problems across various games, and I am starting to think if they aren't simply lying about their specs (which seems an odd thing to do if you want real support), is that they are simply too new and the focus was more on hardware more users use. Going by Steam hardware survey stats, most people have pretty old stuff while only a small fraction are on super high end systems.
I've had a similar experience (and similar performance) on my all-AMD rig. There's slowdown in cities but nothing that makes the game unplayable.
Still, it should be optimized.
I can't argue there. Considering how well it runs as it is on this card, it feels like their minimum requirements are way off, and they could have supported some older hardware if they optimized certain systems a little more. I don't want to make it sound like no effort was taken at all, because... Damn. I've seen every release from Morrowind to Starfield as it was at launch, and this is by far the most well built right out of the gate.
Yeah, I second that. I run the game to a perfectly playable extent, low-to-medium settings, and I have a barely better GPU, 1660-Ti, with a 10th gen laptop i7
It could also be something very specific about how they have their system configured.
Source: Work in tech support and it's astounding the number of programs and little settings that can break completely unrelated things on a computer
I just assume half these people just have the display plugged into the mb.
Bruh you joke but literally I've had to tell people to plug their monitor into their graphics card instead of the MB before, including pulling up pictures of what a graphics card looks like in the back of the computer.
Yeh exactly. I wasn't joking unfortunately.
Hell, my rig doesn't even meet minimum specs (Ryzen 5 2600 and a RX 570) and other than periodic CTDs (fuck Akila City, that was like every 5 min) its run like a dream.
I'm in. 2070S and also don't experience what everybody is talking about.
3070ti, Ryzen 3900x - flawless experience with the settings maxed. FSR2 ran fine, but I have the DLSS mod now with the render scale at 80%.