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Fair warning to anyone considering Starfield. The performance of this game is absolute crap.

It runs at 30fps on all the lowest settings on a 2070 with 64gb ram and an i9-12900K.

It is quite possibly the worst performing game I have ever seen. It's a piece of crap.

Glad I didn't pay for this shit. And I will not. πŸ΄β€β˜ οΈ The writing and worldbuilding is probably AI and gutter tier liberal political takes anyway.

I am absolutely stunned by just how badly this thing runs like omfg I run Elden Ring at 120fps at the same resolution. What the fuck is wrong at Bethesda? I'm so mad about this I just played Armoured Core at a rock solid 144fps and it is so jarring to go from that to this absolutely horrific performance.

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  • There are times I'm unhappy to be right about something I was being pessimistic about, I'll admit this isn't really one of those times

    Bethesda and

    have had a massive ego problem for almost 2 decades now and they've been past their prime since before Oblivion, kinda hope they eat shit on this a bit

    This game lets you "do everything" but it has giant mechs that aren't able to be piloted while Armored Core 6 just lets you pilot the giant mech and does that well, I know which I prefer

    • There are no rovers, no bikes, no jeeps, and no shuttles. You can't choose where to land your ship or fly it on the planet at all. It lands somewhere, and you have to walk to your destination (Bouncy silly jetpacks don't count).

      Like come on Elite Dangerous has shitty little buggies and it's a decade old game made with beer money.

  • It’s impressive how bad the performance is. I had to use AMD Adrenalin to limit it to 60fps to stop it from crashing immediately. Not that it was running higher than 20 at that point anyway.

    All settings to lowest. Had to lower my monitor’s resolution to 1080p because the game doesn’t have a normal fullscreen option, only borderless, and no way to downscale.

    After all of that it runs at a buttery 25-30fps looking worse than Skyrim which can run at 144 without a second thought. I genuinely don’t understand what the fuck they did, low settings look maybe equivalent to medium on Skyrim, a 12 year old game, while running so much worse.

    My graphics card certainly isn’t the newest but there is absolutely no reason it shouldn’t be able to run any game coming out now at least on low.

  • Cool thing is pirates get to play the game earlier than the paypigs who did not buy the overpriced Deluxe edition or whatever it is called. (This is not a call to publishers to Denuvo their games.)

  • That's some impressively bad performance.

    Don't worry the community will fix it for them for free over the next two years.

  • 3090 here with an ultra wide monitor and running on ultra preset, game runs fine for me πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

    • "Hmm I have a $3000 PC and can therefore brute force it, what do you mean it runs like crap?"

      fucking g*mers

    • Some of us can't spend 3 months rent on a PC. "My PC is a battleship and it runs fine, have you tried not being POOR socialists?" is not an excuse.

  • Saw the GamersNexus vid on performance benchmarks across a variety of graphics cards and I think I'll wait for a while before playing Starfield. I think the biggest problem with most games is that they aim to wow graphically and completely forget to optimize for a variety of hardware, especially PC.

    • It doesn't wow when it runs like crap it feels god awful. Anything below 60 is hell for m+kb stuttery and jerky movement, but I want/expect to get 120+ these days.

      It's really shockingly bad.

      • Indeed. I'm playing AC6 right now and while the graphics aren't the most modern, the way everything is designed and runs is just so pretty. So many of these AAA publishers want to push ray tracing and a billion other features for "greater fidelity", but don't put in enough work to actually optimize the experience.

  • 30fps on all the lowest settings on a 2070 with 64gb ram and an i9-12900K.

    FUCK

    that's way better than my rig
    god damnit, i was hoping i could play the new bethesda game modding platform at potato quality ;_;

    • It runs like assssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

      Pirate it and test before you drop money on this thing. I promise you the time/effort to torrent and be sure first might end up saving you regret.

      • Pirate it and test before you drop money on this thing

        i have not bought a videogame in like 6 years lmao
        but i appreciate the sentiment

      • PC Gaming is such a fuck I swear to God. My friend and I have been playing Armored Core 6 since launch. His PC has very slightly worse specs than mine. He has no crashes. I crash after every other mission and usually it doesn't count as a mission complete when it happens

  • From what I can gather it's both oddly GPU heavy and 2000/3000 series Nvidia cards are having a tough time, so you're in quite an unfortunate spot. Also is this with FSR? Cause that'd be a big oof

  • The year is 2784. What's left of humankind after the water wars, wildfires, rising sea levels, wet bulb events, and category 10 hurricanes of the past 700 years has managed to leave the solar system on a generation ship. The Elder Scrolls 14 has just come out after a tortured 36-year development cycle with 19 years dedicated to "rebuilding" the engine. It's a Microsoft Holodeck exclusive. You go in and the first NPC you see clips through a boulder and starts slowly sinking into the ground after clearing it while muttering to themselves about mudcrabs. The gamma setting is slightly off and there's no way to adjust it. You start to move forward and the world hitches as trees pop in mere meters before you in ultra-low LOD, slowly coming into full detail over a few seconds.

    I'm never preordering a Bethesda hologame again.

    The Todd Howard AI installed in your neutral implant chuckles quietly.

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