PC performance is terrible !

[cypher]

I cant even hold stable 60 frames on the lowest settings possible and in 1080p. I never seen a game with worse optimization than this one. You guys can shill all you want, but there is absolutely no reason for a game that has the same graphics as Fallout 4 and is not even open world to run this incredible bad. This is unacceptable.

Just in 2023 alone i played on my pc Resident Evil 4, Armored Core, Baldur's Gate 3, Dead Space, Returnal and Diablo 4, all of them on ultra settings with 60+ fps. And all of these games look much much better than Starfield. So stop the excuses, its not a hardware problem its a Bethesda problem.

i7 9700k
32gb RaM
Rtx 2070
and yes the game is installed in a M.2 SSD

Digital Foundry analysis confirming the game is a mess on pc.
This is my user benchmark.[www.userbenchmark.com]
This video shows how terrible the game runs in a 3060.
This video shows how incredible awful the optimization in this game is for a lot of cards.

[LordQarlyn]

Okay, then it's not just me lol. My PC is running a 3090 RTX 24GB RAM, an i9-9900KF, 32GB system RAM, and even on medium settings, the game stutters regularly.
I've read somewhere that the CPU rather than GPU is the bottleneck for this game. I guess I need to upgrade my CPU lol.

[i don't like sand]

Incredible that Star Citizen has better performance.

[Sparhawk122]

FSR gives me 1/3rd the FPS boost I would get from DLSS balanced/quality. FSR sucks lol

[Darkom]

guys the game is just out, no game will run smootly at the first day, they will patch it soon enough.
now for the subject yeah performance is crap atm, i hope they add dlss soon bc now it looks like im running on 720p ...

[Sparhawk122]

Originally posted by don:

Okay, then it's not just me lol. My PC is running a 3090 RTX 24GB RAM, an i9-9900KF, 32GB system RAM, and even on medium settings, the game stutters regularly.
I've read somewhere that the CPU rather than GPU is the bottleneck for this game. I guess I need to upgrade my CPU lol.

I have a i9 12900k, RTX 3090 and 32GB DDR5 ram @6200Mhz CL32. I get lows of 40 FPS.

[Major_Tinz]

RES: 3440 x 1440
GPU: EVGA 24GB GDDR6X GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FTW3 ULTRA GAMING (24G-P5-4985-KR)
CPU: Ryzen 9 5950X (12c/24)
RAM: 64Gb (16 x 4) at 3600Mhz
M.2 NVME SSD: 2 x 2TB Samsung 980 Pro
Mobo: ASUS Crosshair VIII Hero

Barely above 50 FPS on ULTRA. Going to HIGH doesn't make a lot of difference and visuals get much worse. No upscaling as it sucks. I am resorting to Reshade soon to sharpen things up too, as the visuals are too blurry for me. I will lose more FPS with Reshade, but will have to trim settings down anyway to get the clarity / FPS I prefer.

I am astonished at how poor the game engine is. I run all my other top tier games at vastly higher frame rates without needing any upscaling. I hope they optimise it.

[Wasted Wanker]

I just got home from a friend's house and he ran it just fine with a 3060, in 4k, at high settings. Either the trolls are coming out in force or you all have some serious hard ware/settings issues.

[✠Deser✞🅵☣⚔⚔♏✠]

Originally posted by Master Cheeks:

Incredible that Star Citizen has better performance.

Star Citizen has 20 years on Starfield, and the thing both games have in common they haven't been released.

The awesome people paying 69.99 are paying 13.99 more to be bug testers, I love it, I know Microsoft loves it.

By the time the 6th comes around those that patiently waited will have a quality release.

Thanks.

[MINUANO GAMING]

If you're gonna benchmark the game, go to the MAST District of New Atlantis. The place with all the trees and ponds. Benchmarking in the middle of nowhere is useless.

Running at 4K here, 4080 & 12900k, it's nearly impossible to get a 60fps lock there. Lowering settings does very little to increase the performance. The only way I managed to lock it to 60 was by upscaling extremely aggressively (<60% scaling) and even with the DLSS mod, it looks pretty blurry at that point. It's not worth losing half your pixels just to go from 40 to 60 imo.

[Wybrem]

Originally posted by Caramello:

Game is cpu bound like crazy, anything below a 12k will run like ass.

No, the game is unoptimized. It’s ugly and has no business using that much cpu time for essentially empty worlds with character models from 2009.

[Kelset]

Performance is...not optimal. Changing from 4k to 1080 barely increases fps.
On a 3070ti , 32gb , AMD Ryzen9 3900x 24 cores it goes at 30 fps locked in 4k ultra, 45 fps at high in 1080p in both cases at 50% rendering scale with fsr2 on but it looks like a cow licked my monitor back and forth despite sharpening. In closed enviroments it hits 80fps with 2 actors but when you go around the city is very low, the only 2 planets I cheked so far are around 45/74 depending on where you look. Opening the menu sometimes kills the fps to 11 and going back to the game it caps at 11 fps and I have to wait several seconds before upscaling kicks in (same as Cyberpunk btw when I open the map) to get back to stable higher fps.

I can't imagine how this runs on consoles.

This game needs 3 things:

1-DLSS3
2-Better CPU usage on threads
3-Less loading screens and more streaming

Beside performance the loading screens for transitions are annoying, everything has a loading breaking point.
I understand this engine can't handle some stuff properly given the already poor performances, but like this it's not completely appropriate to the genre. Not saying it's a deal breaker but it almost is.

[Solaries]

Everyone with issues, check the power usage on your GPU - you'll see the game is not fully using your GPU. I've no idea why or how to fix it.

[cookiecrusher03]

ive got an i7-12700f, 32gb and an rtx 3070 ti, and i basically cant play the game, music keeps on cutting out as well as in game sounds like footsteps and dialogue etc. game keeps freezing, music stops, dialogue lags. and im running it on medium, anyone got any tips?

[gloriousparadise]

besides the horrible optimization, does anyone else's audio cut in and out while playing the game

[Kelset]

Originally posted by Solaries:

Everyone with issues, check the power usage on your GPU - you'll see the game is not fully using your GPU. I've no idea why or how to fix it.

I have the gpu at 99% usage and the cpu at 14% highest, ranging from 7 to 14 depending on the situation.