Starfield gets low-spec PC mod for those gaming on potatoes
Starfield gets low-spec PC mod for those gaming on potatoes
If you've not got the best PC around but still really want to play Starfield, there's a mod that might be able to help …
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It's sad that this is necessary. And given that it took less than a week for modders to get actual performance gains means that bethesda could've easily done it themselves.
Don't think Bethesda is focused on making their gaming look specifically bad just to make it run on older hardware. Similar to all other companies there is a minimum spec. I do think that having such great mod support allows for this to happen which is great.
They are sabotaging their own sales by not doing it. Starfield is such a hyped game that many people who don't usually game much will want to play it and those people tend to not have the most up-to-date hardware. The PC I built in 2018 for about 1100€ is pretty much exactly the minimum spec for starfield. And given that minimum specs usually target 30fps for some reason, I'd need this mod if I wanted to play it at a reasonable framerate.
It's a first party title used to drive Gamepass subs now, they have different metrics for success. Not to mention you can play it streaming on multiple services too and on console. They'll be fine not appealing to people stuck a decade back tech wise.
From a money perspective, probably. But there's also the PR perspective to consider, and they threw away an easy win there. Starfield can run decently on the steam deck and if they cared to optimize it for that, it would have been a big win.
People were going to shit on it no matter what, literally the only game in recent memory that the Internet didn't shit on was Baldurs Gate 3, and that's probably mostly because it's a much smaller company.
Bg3 is great don't get me wrong
I'm running starfield medium graphics on a 1660 super and getting 60fps at 1440p.
It honestly runs fairly good on just a decent graphics card.
No, you're not. I have a 3080Ti and get anything between 20 and 45 fps in 1440p, lowering the graphics options doesn't do jack shit either. 12700k, 32GB 3600 MHz DDR4, Game installed on a m.2 980 SSD. Do you lie about your fps to feel better about buying it ?
https://youtu.be/NsK3zrqtPCM?si=A3RLuly8GYzCeuFM
Medium can't even keep a stable 30 fps on 1660S.
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Good to hear, maybe the minimum specs are just a very conservative pick for this game.
That shouldn't be a surprise for a five year old computer.
This seems like pure speculation. The relative number of people below this spec is probably not worth it for them to focus on this. Besides their explicit support for modding allows them to improved sales value. Consider for example Skyrim. It was re-released so many times and people kept buying it and mods allowed it to look great even years after its release. I think by narrowing their scope they can focus on development of a good core and by leveraging their mod community it can run on older or higher hardware. Win win in my opinion.
I'm surprised that the mod is even necessary given that the game can run on the Xbox S or whatever the hell it's called.
The Series S is still current Gen tech running at a lower power profile. A lower end PC may be using a previous gen CPU or GPU making it harder to optimise.
They probably optimized the minimum settings for that and spent zero time considering low-spec PCs.
I'd guess that this is a management issue and not a development one.
You see modders care for the game.
Starfield is a shit game that should not need the level of detailed gfx to run. Anything from 2000 will trash Starfield today. The devs know this.
Bro you hating.
I can understand the hate. I can't understand the love. Feels like people that like starfield never touched any genuine good games before.
I mean theres certainly a game there, but its very much a game pass filler or a sale game. Its definitely not worth the asking price.
Its like Fallout 4 but with less going on all around you. The dialogue is improved I can give them that, but all around the game is pretty uninspired and bland, its very much a console game. Theres a lot better out there.