I don't really understand the system requirements

[Soliham]

I don't game that much on pc so I got no clue but here to ask, would my laptop be able to run this? I got a AMD Ryzen 7 5800H with Radeon Graphics, 32GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU with 6GB dedicated VRAM. Thanks in advance

[ChuTheMan]

yes it will run.

[Soliham]

Originally posted by ChuTheMan:

yes it will run.

alright thanks

[solitaire45]

Ehh.... Maybe. The minimum spec cards listed are both 8GB cards so you might be short on VRAM. We don't have any benchmarks of usage at the moment though so it's hard to say, but that would be the main bottleneck in your system, and unfortunely that's a hard bottleneck since running out of VRAM causes lots of microstuttering as assets have to be shuffled around more to get to your GPU for processing.

[ChuTheMan]

Originally posted by solitaire45:

Ehh.... Maybe. The minimum spec cards listed are both 8GB cards so you might be short on VRAM. We don't have any benchmarks of usage at the moment though so it's hard to say, but that would be the main bottleneck in your system, and unfortunely that's a hard bottleneck since running out of VRAM causes lots of microstuttering as assets have to be shuffled around more to get to your GPU for processing.

but game should still be able to get played. also Bethesda have put min requirement higher than it actually would be, so i still think OP should be able to play.

EDIT: they have put higher min requirements in their older games, so most likely gonna be like that here too.

[Soliham]

Originally posted by solitaire45:

Ehh.... Maybe. The minimum spec cards listed are both 8GB cards so you might be short on VRAM. We don't have any benchmarks of usage at the moment though so it's hard to say, but that would be the main bottleneck in your system, and unfortunely that's a hard bottleneck since running out of VRAM causes lots of microstuttering as assets have to be shuffled around more to get to your GPU for processing.

I'll have to wait for some benchmarks and see then. Thanks for your insight.

[conejeitor]

Originally posted by Soliham:

I don't game that much on pc so I got no clue but here to ask, would my laptop be able to run this? I got a AMD Ryzen 7 5800H with Radeon Graphics, 32GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU with 6GB dedicated VRAM. Thanks in advance

it will run fairly well (say, 30 fps) at low to medium setting, probably at 1080p.

[Longhorn]

I too have a AMD Ryzen 7 5800H w/Radeon Graphics laptop, 16MB RAM, HDMI video out to a 4K 28 inch screen). Does anybody know how this works under the hood? Will WIN11 Pro allocate (say) 8GB for the video and use the rest for the system? I hate to spend the money to find out this is a non-starter for Starfield

I also have a killer M2 Pro Mac but haven't discovered a reasonable way to play Starfield yet. Most suggestions seem like workarounds that will likely be buggy.

All comment appreciated!

[MrBishop077]

I am curious about the SSD requirement. you've really got to put this on a solid state drive? a standard gaming HHD wont cut it?

[jkonjkfelsnfjnf]

It will run but it will be horrible. Excpect 30 fps.

[Escapist]

Originally posted by MrBishop077:

I am curious about the SSD requirement. you've really got to put this on a solid state drive? a standard gaming HHD wont cut it?

I would say SSD's are the standard now. However, even that might not be enough. I had to move the game from an external SSD to an internal one that only houses my OS in order for the game to run decently.

[Dagmar]

Originally posted by Dopamine:

It will run but it will be horrible. Excpect 30 fps.

This isn't the competive multiplayer action shooter you might be thinking it is. 30fps actually works out okay.

Aiming for the face > 60fps

[MrBishop077]

Originally posted by Escapist:

I would say SSD's are the standard now.

ye i also only have the one for my OS (the M.2 1TB stick), i'd tried a ssd in hard drive form for games a few years ago, but it died in 7 months. it could've been bad luck but it was enough of a loss to send me back to the older drives ..
ill look at them again, i guess. Thanks =)

[MonkehMaster]

Originally posted by solitaire45:

Ehh.... Maybe. The minimum spec cards listed are both 8GB cards so you might be short on VRAM. We don't have any benchmarks of usage at the moment though so it's hard to say, but that would be the main bottleneck in your system, and unfortunely that's a hard bottleneck since running out of VRAM causes lots of microstuttering as assets have to be shuffled around more to get to your GPU for processing.

thats what ram is for and after ram the paging file.

but the console people making up 30/60fps nonsense for pc performance is ridiculous.

[MonkehMaster]

OP if your specs match anywhere on or between these specs it should be fine.

starfield

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

MINIMUM:
OS: Windows 10 version 21H1 (10.0.19043)
Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X, Intel Core i7-6800K
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 5700, NVIDIA GeForce 1070 Ti
DirectX: Version 12
Storage: 125 GB available space
Additional Notes: SSD Required

RECOMMENDED:
OS: Windows 10/11 with updates
Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, Intel i5-10600K
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
DirectX: Version 12
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 125 GB available space
Additional Notes: SSD Required

but to for warn ya, dont expect good performance, this game wasnt optimized for pc (its optimized for xbox) and the complaints and people saying it runs great are wildly different.

with lots of people (console players) spouting some console 30/60 fps performance nonsense for pc's.

and according to a dev from this game....

todd howard 2023

"it is optimized, upgrade your pc's"

[teg]

but it died in 7 months. it could've been bad luck but it was enough of a loss to send me back to the older drives ..

I've been gaming on the same 4TB SSD for probably 4-5 years now. I didn't buy it new either. It was in a server we decommissioned. Gaming isn't hard on SSD's. What wears out SSD's is writing, not reading.

I have another 2TB SSD I hit with maybe 20-30 gigs of new files a day. It's been alive for a couple years now too.

The only drives I'd buy are ones from Samsung. Intel would be my second choice. I've never had one of their drives die on me (hope that's not famous last words). I've had a crucial drive fail on me.