Starfield | System Specs revealed

[Metroidvania]

How many games have released that required an SSD so far? I've seen quite a few that recommend it, but I can't think of any offhand that have absolutely required it. (I'm not worried, I've got two)

I really want to see DF or somebody immediately try to play it on a HDD to see what happens.. lol.

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As a 'requirement', rather than recommended? Maybe only Star Citizen, that I'm aware of?

It's been a non-factor afaik until now - but now that consoles are getting there, for 'bigger' games I would imagine it'll start happening in the next couple of years.

HDD will, depending on the requirements for loading/unloading assets or accessing more information, likely either have huge loading times, and/or not work at all.

I'm kinda more curious if having an NMVE will help more or not (i.e. if their engine doesn't have a bottleneck on the system side for ssd speeds - IIRC Fallout 4 does have a certain bottleneck that can, or at least could, crash your game if you loaded too quickly)

 

[Trey2Deebo]

I've regretted guiding my PC almost two years ago for a long time. But now it's time to shine baby, let's go! Excited to jump into game spas

 

[arrado]

Yeah these specs indicate that Pro consoles will be welcome next year

 

[Drachen]

Really hope I don't have to play on low settings with my 5700 XT

 

[Van Bur3n]

I am not literate with PC stuff whatsoever, but my brother built my PC and he says I can run this easy money so sweet.

 

[HemoGoblin]

Probably going to play this on cloud since I don't have an Xbox or pc… So I guess we'll see how that goes.

unless it's decent on deck. Which I doubt.

 

[dosh]

Great. My Ryzen 5 7600, RX 6700XT and 32GB RAM should carry me at 1080p and that's all I ask.

 

[Jedi2016]

I'm kinda more curious if having an NMVE will help more or not (i.e. if their engine doesn't have a bottleneck on the system side for ssd speeds - IIRC Fallout 4 does have a certain bottleneck that can, or at least could, crash your game if you loaded too quickly)

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On my system, I don't think it'll make much difference. I do have a new Gen4 NVMe drive, but my motherboard's old enough that it doesn't actually support it, so it's running at Gen3 speeds. So it's not really noticeably any faster than my SATA SSD. It does have plenty of room on it, though, so all the new releases later this year (Starfield, Forza) will go on that one.

 

[Donwx]

My 2070 Super is somewhere around the minimum spec, so we'll see how that goes. A benchmarking tool before launch would be nice

I dunno how this will work on the Series S

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A 2070 super is not around the minimum specs,its actually closer to the recommend cards.A 2070 super uses the same chip as the 2080. Its only around 10% slower than a 2080.

 

[Lom1lo]

I hope it supports xess/dlss/fsr

 

[Scottoest]

125GB lol

 

[Edward850]

No requirement can be enforced, but the game will crash

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I doubt it would even crash, you can do memory mapping and run DirectStorage even from a floppy drive if you wanted. However if what you're doing uses it for low latency random access reads (which is likely the case here) it's going to stall like crazy.

 

[Donwx]

the recommended RX 6800XT or RTX 2080 is laughable. RX 6800XT is leagues above a 2080.

Either way all my PC's are good.

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Could be an Nvidia sponsored title and be more optimized around Nvidia's hardware.

 

[Roytheone]

125GB lol

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At least it kinda looks like this game makes a case for that size. I recently tried to install far cry 6 and it's 170 GB!!!

 

[YourFriendLevi]

Might be time to upgrade from my Ryzen 5 3600

 

[eathdemon]

if it has dlss support and ability to prechache shaders il be happy.

 

[Carbon]

I think this ol' 5800X / RTX 3080 combo will keep me going for a while longer.

On the whole, not terribly demanding specs for this.

 

[LGHT_TRSN]

Should run decent on my 3060ti/8700k....curious how the Deck handles it.

 

[Fatmanp]

Could be an Nvidia sponsored title and be more optimized around Nvidia's hardware.

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It's being heavily optimised on rDNA for console so I doubt it.

 

[Elven_Star]

Surprisingly reasonable. I should be able to max out everything at 1920x1536 on my 3080 Ti.

 

[eathdemon]

It's being heavily optimised on rDNA for console so I doubt it.

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but almost certainly being develped on nvidia pcs, by a studio known to focus on their pc versions.

 

[dgrdsv]

Could be an Nvidia sponsored title and be more optimized around Nvidia's hardware.

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Probably using ray tracing in recommended tier in which case 6800XT being about on par with 2080 isn't that surprising.

 

[smocaine]

Want to build a new PC
Don't want to buy/support these new GPUs or a three-year-old GPU at near enough

 

[Dictator]

Probably using ray tracing in recommended tier in which case 6800XT being about on par with 2080 isn't that surprising.

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A very interesting implication - the gameplay they showed off in the xbox conference looks to have been legitimate XSX like hw settings at least given the performance and graphical quality.

 

[IlGialloMondadori]

Steam Deck or nah?

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Maybe? I bet it'll run, possibly decently at 800p, if it's running on Series S at 1440p 30ps.

 

[Sinah]

Might be time to upgrade from my Ryzen 5 3600

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I mean that's pretty much the recommended cpu there is no difference between a 3600x and a 3600 with a good cooler and it should still be good for a while considering it's very close to what consoles use but am4 CPUs are pretty cheap atm even the 58003d.

 

[kaytra]

Should i upgrade my i7-7700k for this? I have a 3080 paired with it.

 

[dgrdsv]

A very interesting implication - the gameplay they showed off in the xbox conference looks to have been legitimate XSX like hw settings at least given the performance and graphical quality.

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It can be worse. Phantom Liberty is putting a 2060 (!) against 6800XT in its RT requirements.
And I fully expect to see more of these in the future.

 

[Mr.Deadshot]

Should i upgrade my i7-7700k for this? I have a 3080 paired with it.

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You should wait for the release and user impressions first.

 

[Linus815]

Should i upgrade my i7-7700k for this? I have a 3080 paired with it.

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tbf regardless of starfield, the 7700k is bottlenecking that gpu as is

 

[Fizzgig]

Bought the Starfield controller but will most likely play on PC. That's the beauty of Gamepass, I can try both and see which I prefer.

 

[kenshee]

Curious if my old 1070+6700k would be able to do 1080p/30fps at low/medium settings, the hype was making me consider trying it, and then just play it again in full glory when I finally get around to building a new pc (moved to ps5 for a bit until I see prices that seem reasonable... Just a gpu is about a whole month's paycheck for me atm lol), but falling below even minimum is making me reconsider.
I suppose I could do a 1 month gamepass sub to see how/if it works? And then buy the complete edition on steam once I have a new pc or something.

 

[brain_stew]

Should i upgrade my i7-7700k for this? I have a 3080 paired with it.

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I don't see any way you won't hit a hard CPU bottleneck otherwise.

Might be time to upgrade from my Ryzen 5 3600

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There's a 5800x3D with your name on it. Either that or the rumoured 5600x3D if it hits the right price point.

 

[arsene_P5]

EDIT: Oh snap SSD required? Interesting

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Is this the first game that requires a SSD for minimum specs?

 

[LightKiosk]

Is this the first game that requires a SSD for minimum specs?

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Going off of memory I think it is.

 

[MimosaSTG]

I really hope this isn't an AMD sponsored title. Seems like they force devs to not include DLSS tech. It's very annoying.

 

[AHA-Lambda]

Can the deck run this?

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Possibly?
It'd be pushing it I expect

You'd certainly need at least the 256gb model though

 

[kyle mechlachlan]

800p lowest settings 30fps on Deck

 

[Mingoguaya]

So my laptop with a 1660ti / 16gGB RAM/ I7-9750 should be able to run this at 1080p with a respectable framerate?

 

[BringBackSonics]

Possibly?
It'd be pushing it I expect

You'd certainly need at least the 256gb model though

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800p lowest settings 30fps on Deck

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Thanks guys!

 

[Ravelle]

That 2TB SSD investment I did a couple years ago is paying off!

 

[BringBackSonics]

Shit sorry

 

[Dinjoralo]

is it still that bad?

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It's still bad, but Microsoft's devs seem like they have a support group for it. They put out the only games that actually don't suffer for DirectX12.

 

[kyle mechlachlan]

Thanks guys!

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lol i wasn't responding to you and i definitely dont know if this will actually run on deck. it wasn't meant to be a declaration of fact.

 

[Clay]

I have a 6700XT. So just shy of recommended but hopefully I'll be ok?

I'm new to PC gaming, is there an understood quality these are aiming at? Like does the recommended get you 60fps at high settings at 1440p, or something like that?

 

[BringBackSonics]

lol i wasn't responding to you and i definitely dont know if this will actually run on deck. it wasn't meant to be a declaration of fact.

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Well hopefully there are people that are getting this for their desktop pc and will try to fire it up on their deck to try :). My deck is my pc gaming Device

 

[Parker Petrov]

A 6800 XT is equivelant to an RTX 2080 in what universe?

edit: Maybe it's supposed to say RTX 3080.

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Yeah unless they are factoring in dlss on the 2080 but I would agree that I wouldn't consider those like for like. They may have just optimized more for nvidia

 

[Kraken3dfx]

Just upgraded to a 4070Ti about a month ago, ready to do this.

 

[Dinjoralo]

For how light those recommended specs are, at least relative to a lot of other current-gen only games, I'm surprised the Xbox versions don't have any kind of 60 FPS mode.

 

[XDDX]

I have a 6700XT. So just shy of recommended but hopefully I'll be ok?

I'm new to PC gaming, is there an understood quality these are aiming at? Like does the recommended get you 60fps at high settings at 1440p, or something like that?

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Some games do state the resolution and FPS target for their requirements, but we don't have that info here. The recommended could be 1080p 30 or 1440p 60, we don't know yet. You should be fine with the 6700XT though hopefully.