Will a GTX 1060 6gb work?

[Bartowski]

I upgraded my PC when Star Citizen was announced(haha i know) Everything else is great, but my card is starting to show its age. Any idea if it will be able to run Starfield, or am i going to have to upgrade?

[Cellar_Cat]

Well you are a couple rungs below minimum requirements: https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-1060-6GB-vs-Nvidia-GTX-1070-Ti/3639vs3943

[slayer1971uk]

best way to find out of your pc can handle a game is go to https://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri

[Bar]

i would recommend getting ASRock Challenger Pro Radeon RX 6750 XT 12GB so you get the free premium code with it. you could get a 6700 but this things 12 GB for like another $50. i got mine for $500 canadian. a 1060 is probably going to struggle hard with this game...if it even runs it at all.

[Wenzel]

Honestly? Yes, it might. It could even run surprisingly good in low settings.

But Starfield isnt a game to play on low settings.

That's why I ditched my beloved 1060-6GB-Desktop that I ran for almost SEVEN years and bought me this:
Ryzen 9 7900
Radeon RX 6800 16GB VRAM
AMD B650
32 GB RAM

[50 Cal]

Originally posted by Wenzel:

Honestly? Yes, it might. It could even run surprisingly good in low settings.

But Starfield isnt a game to play on low settings.

That's why I ditched my beloved 1060-6GB-Desktop that I ran for almost SEVEN years and bought me this:
Ryzen 9 7900
Radeon RX 6800 16GB VRAM
AMD B650
32 GB RAM

You should have gotten the 7800x3d

[Wenzel]

Originally posted by 50 Cal:

Originally posted by Wenzel:

Honestly? Yes, it might. It could even run surprisingly good in low settings.

But Starfield isnt a game to play on low settings.

That's why I ditched my beloved 1060-6GB-Desktop that I ran for almost SEVEN years and bought me this:
Ryzen 9 7900
Radeon RX 6800 16GB VRAM
AMD B650
32 GB RAM

You should have gotten the 7800x3d

Nah, higher power consumption and only 8 cores.

The Ryzen 9 7900 has 12 cores. Much better in the long run.

[FriendCalledFive]

Why are people incapable of reading the required specs on the steam page and run to forums to be spoon fed?

[50 Cal]

Originally posted by Wenzel:

Originally posted by 50 Cal:

You should have gotten the 7800x3d

Nah, higher power consumption and only 8 cores.

The Ryzen 9 7900 has 12 cores. Much better in the long run.

if its for gaming you are totally wrong 8 cores will be viable for many years to come. The max recommended for the most high end games today is 6 cores. 12 cores for games is totally useless. And for games today the 7800x3d beats the 7900x with a clear margin.

[Wenzel]

Originally posted by 50 Cal:

Originally posted by Wenzel:

Nah, higher power consumption and only 8 cores.

The Ryzen 9 7900 has 12 cores. Much better in the long run.

if its for gaming you are totally wrong 8 cores will be viable for many years to come. The max recommended for the most high end games today is 6 cores. 12 cores for games is totally useless. And for games today the 7800x3d beats the 7900x with a clear margin.

Well, it all depends on the game developers. If they decide to design their games along CPUs with more than 8 cores, they can start doing that at any moment.

[50 Cal]

Originally posted by Wenzel:

Originally posted by 50 Cal:

if its for gaming you are totally wrong 8 cores will be viable for many years to come. The max recommended for the most high end games today is 6 cores. 12 cores for games is totally useless. And for games today the 7800x3d beats the 7900x with a clear margin.

Well, it all depends on the game developers. If they decide to design their games along CPUs with more than 8 cores, they can start doing that at any moment.

No they cant cause its really hard to utilize more cpu cores in gaming. You dont know what you are talking about.

[jaggo]

Originally posted by FriendCalledFive:

Why are people incapable of reading the required specs on the steam page and run to forums to be spoon fed?

Because with a little intelligence it is possible to play a game even below the minimum requirements, so people ask for advice. Unless you want to buy me a 4070 TI with zelensky's money

[Pfaall]

Bartowski, were you able to make it run with your gtx 1060?
I am also wondering if this is going to work, or not at all.

[GrandTickler]

probably at 720p @50% FSR2

[GrandTickler]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U16n7_7oDA&

[Excellion]

Originally posted by Pfaall:

Bartowski, were you able to make it run with your gtx 1060?
I am also wondering if this is going to work, or not at all.

Personally i'm running it on a GTX 1070 with 8Gb of VRam at 1080p on medium settings with resolution scaling disabled (Which defaults to 50% at the standard medium graphics quality settings).

Performance in large, open zones (Cities mostly) is strained with the game struggling to reach a consistent 30FPS (It tends to hoven between 28 and 33). In-door area's are mostly fine though, and tend to reach 40-60 FPS (Capped at 60 for me, so it could be higher). What you REALLY need is an SSD drive though. Installing the game on a regular HDD leads to choppy audio and gameplay due to the amount of asset loading the game has to do.

It may work for you if you drop the visual settings to low to conserve VRam and fiddle with the settings a bit. Just be aware that the game look... rather bad when FSR2 is used in combination with low settings, and that you should decide for yourself if you can stomach that in combination with a 30 FPS refresh rate.