Todd Howard wants you to upgrade your PC for Starfield

Date:
Thu, 07 Sep 2023 14:59:26 +0000

Description:
Todd Howard has clarified that Starfield has been optimized for PC, but some "may need to upgrade" their setups for it.

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If youve been having trouble running Starfield on your PC, game director Todd Howard thinks you may need to upgrade, as the title has already been optimized.

As GamesRadar+ reports , in an interview with Bloomberg Technology, Howard
and Xbox boss Phil Spencer were asked a number of audience questions, one of which was simply: Why did you not optimize this game for PC?

We did, its running great, Howard responded, as Spencer laughed in the background. It is a next-gen PC game. We really do push the technology, so
you may need to upgrade your PC for this game, but its got a lot of great stuff going on in it, and the fans are responding awesomely.

Howards response may come as a surprise to some, since over the last week, while gamers have been getting stuck into the space-exploration RPG, a number of posts have surfaced online of players flagging PC performance issues. In a thread on Starfield s Steam Community, one player alleged : If I set the graphics settings to low, for every setting at 1080p resolution, I still get constant stuttering, screen tearing, and my frame rate is all over the place, between 40 and 55 FPS. My computer is above [the] recommended specs for this game. There is something very wrong with the performance of this game.

At the time of writing, however, Starfield has a very positive rating on Steam, as 83% of its reviews have been positive. Yesterday (September 6), the game managed to accumulate over one million concurrent players across PC,
Xbox Series X|S and cloud streaming - while the exact number per platform hasnt been revealed, data shows that Steam saw a peak of 269,177.

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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/gaming/pc-gaming/todd-howard-wants-you-to-upgrade-yo ur-pc-for-starfield


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