It's BS though. People with TOTL hardware are having issues. Those systems don't underperform because the game is advanced or anything like that -- the game underperforms because it is a new release that is poorly optimized. It's also expected because it's on a senior citizen of a game engine that likely needs a few other nudges.

Todd Howard forgets that PC users see this shit all the time, and it's pretty obvious with this one. Hoping to see talk of optimization in a coming patch instead.

Edit: a good example -- not hitting 60fps in New Atlantis, but concurrently, CPU usage in the 50s and GPU usage in the 70s. That's a sign of poor optimization.

Why upgrade when I will just pick it up on the PS7, 10 years from now, along with the Skyrim bundle.

I expected this once everyone kept buying into nvidias dlss.

Nvidia and dlss will be required to get titles to run decently.

Minimal game optimization will be done on majority of future game titles.

Fml

I haven’t played starfield yet but many of the recent headliner releases have been performance hogs. It’s not unreasonable to expect people to either play with lower settings or upgrade if you want to run the best possible set up. That’s why there are performance sliders in most games. When you need a 3080 to run minimum settings that’s when you start running into trouble (👀ksp 2)

Makes my decision to not buy it even easier.

Starfield also requires an SSD, a first for a modern triple-A PC game.

I recall the same being said about Cyberpunk 2077, and I'm not sure that was the first either.

Y'all are surprised the boss of a AAA studio suggested you buy hardware from companies he has a deeply vested interest in?

It's all one big circle jerk of companies and anyone buying "cutting edge" gets what they deserve.

You're the product in more ways than one

Its on Game Pass, Todd. If it doesn't run well I'll just not play Skyrim-Space Edition.

My partner who is interested has a PS5 and an older PC. If her PC doesn't run it, she'll probably just keep playing Stardew Valley. Honestly it's not like anyone is going to really be talking about Starfield in a month or two except ridiculous ship builds on social media.

I have a i9 13900k and a Radeon 7900xtx, 64GB RAM and I had to refund on steam it because it would keep crashing to desktop every few minutes. Sometimes I would not even get passed the Bethesda into Logo before crashing. Very frustrating experience to say the least.

If he's telling us this, does that mean we get to bill him for the upgrade?

Not that I'll be buying it anytime soon but if the hardware specifications I've read are true, no graphics card is worth €500+ to play a game. This is bonkers.

Wish my computer weren't dead, so I could at least try to play it. Although my 2070 wouldn't have survived. It runs nice on my Series X, but I hate playing this type of game with a controller.

Runs fine for me. 5600X, RTX 3080 @ 1440p high-ultra settings native.

What Todd Howard is being a dipshit tool again? I'm shocked....shocked I tell you..

Just upgrade your PC 4head

My 1060 would probably burst into flames at 640x480 then.