lol. has anyone found ways to optimize starfield for their pc, like reducing stuttering, FPS drops, etc?
With Xbox sales in the gutter you would think they would make an effort to make some money on PC sales, but nope. Looks like the game is a bomb.
I think, their strategy is actually the reverse. They try to strengthen XBOX by making this game a quasi-exclusive for it.
I don’t think, they’ll gain many new XBOX customers with Starfield, as it’s neither so exceptionally good, nor does it do things, you can’t find in other games, to make anyone buy a new console for it.
But since their other big IP this year, Redfall, was a complete dud, they’re probably rather even worried of losing long-time customers.
Optimise for which PC though? There’s only so much you can optimise for general PCs.
Nah, there’s tons of things you can optimize, independent of the hardware. The whole industry runs on smokes and mirrors, because even a 2D game can bring the strongest hardware to its knees, if it’s badly coded / unoptimized.
(Yes, I have experience with that. 🙃)
And there’s always more smokes and mirrors you could be integrating to squeeze out more performance.
honestly it runs fine on my 5700xt r5 3600 combo. not max settings, I set to “high” from memory as the game defaulted to the minimum for me, but I could bump it no worries. no real frame rate or stuttering issues. I’d love to run it higher but I’m a realist, and new PC is on the cards anyway over the next year
I have a 5700 xt as well, paired with a 5600X. The game runs perfectly well. I honestly had more issues with stuttering in BG3.
They did lol, and that’s a really dumb question by a tech illiterate. Optimization isn’t a boolean state, it’s a constant ongoing process that still needs more work.
Also optimization happens between a minimum and a maximum. If Bethesda defines that the game should have a certain minimal visual quality (texture and model resolution, render distance, etc), that will lead to the minimum that hardware has to offer to handle it.
What modders so far did, was to lower the minimum further (for example by replacing textures with lower resolutions). That’s a good way to make it run on older hardware, but it’s no optimization Bethesda would or should do, because that’s not what they envisioned for their game.
Ran horribly until I put it on my SSD. Runs flawlessly now.
if you’re running new games off a hard drive in 2023, todd is absolutely right and you should just spend the 50 bucks on an ssd
SSDs have been the standard for like a decade
A 4TB HDD is still significantly cheaper than a 4TB SSD.
