A galaxy is big, turns out
Starfield’s PC system requirements have appeared on itsSteam page, and while exploring itspossiblytoovastcollection of planets andfacial hair optionsprobably will not have your PC sobbing stress tears, the spacefaring RPG will make some big asks. Especially whereSSDspace is concerned.
Bethesda say you’ll need 125GB of free storage to getStarfieldall comfy and installed, and unusually, even the minimum specifications outright state that an SSD is required. HDDs are invariably slower, and to be perfectly honest I wouldn’t mind seeing the back of them myself, but it’s still peculiar to read of solid state storage as aspecificminimum requirement.
TheCPUrequirements aren’t too high but a lot of low-endgraphics cardscould miss out as well, as these system specs list the AMD Radeon RX 5700 and Nvidia GTX 1070 Ti as minimum GPUs. Remember when both of those could take a halfway decent crack at 4K? The times, they are a-changin’. Here are the full lists:
One does get the sense that this might be another toughie to run well. Over in consoleland there’s been a bit of a brouhaha over Starfield being capped at 30fps on the Xbox Sesies XeSesseses; there’s no reason to think the PC version might get similarly capped, but the last Bethesda-published game that launched with a 30fps lock on console wasRedfall. And the less said about Redfall’s PC performance, the better. Here’s about1500 words on it.
Still, let’s not clutch our pearls too tightly until we’ve seen Starfield running, at length, on a desktop. Assuming no further delays, it’llrelease on September 6ththis year.
