stuttering and lagging

[NotACop2K]

I really don't understand, maybe i'm doing something wrong but I have this game at all low settings and it is practically unplayable. Mainly gpu issues and I'm running a nvidia 3070 ti. Wondering if anyone else had this issue.

[Commissar DOOM]

I do too, I tried installing them on SSD as well but it's still the same. It's basically unplayable. (btw using xbox gamepass to test things out.)

[mal_kav]

I am not sure if you are looking for actual help since you didn't post the rest of your computer specs. If you installed on a HDD you will have issues.

Having said that you can check out some of the mods that have DLSS and performance boosting mods. Hopefully they will help you. (You should be able to find DLSS v2 mods for free.)

[Mathias Giovanni]

God I love my old trusty NVidia GTX 1080.

[Enundr]

installed mine on a SSD , i9-10850K @ 3.60 GHz , 3080 , 16gigs of Ram and an unholy amount of stuttering and delay in dialogue , both text and voice after the character has said something ......side note though no game driver update yet from nvidia as well , which is odd for them......heard they were cutting the budget for the team on that stuff which.......makes me want to switch to an AMD setup if thats the case as it shows less support for gaming drivers for their cards....

[riffles]

'There's no way Starfield should stutter on a 2023 PC.'
Starfield: 'Hold my b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-beer.'

[NotACop2K]

Originally posted by Mathias Giovanni:

God I love my old trusty NVidia GTX 1080.

Nvidia 3070 ti

[NotACop2K]

Originally posted by mal_kav:

I am not sure if you are looking for actual help since you didn't post the rest of your computer specs. If you installed on a HDD you will have issues.

Having said that you can check out some of the mods that have DLSS and performance boosting mods. Hopefully they will help you. (You should be able to find DLSS v2 mods for free.)

Thanks didnt even realize that i didn't post my specs.
i got this computer beginning of last year.
16 gigs of ram
nividia gtx 3070 ti
intel core with 12 processors
thats just off the top of my head but i mean i absolutely should have no problem running this one

[Jayhova]

No issues here. i5-13600k/RTX 4080

[Vietrak]

Your GPU is prehistoric trash. You must upgrade. This is fix said Todd:

https://x.com/tomwarren/status/1699703814209548630?s=46&t=d-f9Sfcj2EDW8KpGS-uGpA

[curst]

You didn't specify this so just to be sure - ABSOLUTELY USE SSD!

When I first installed Starfield I missed the SSD requirement, so I simply used a regular hard drive. Holy crap! It was utterly unplayable due to an insane amount of stuttering and lag, which sounds much like what you'ore seeing. I can only assume that was due to the game trying to play while assets still weren't fully loaded... maybe? I can't pretend to truly understand the problem but that's certainly what it felt like. Once the game was able to load everything (which could take minutes) the performance was pretty good - well, up until it had to load something new anyway. Which is a constant thing, so... yeah, unplayable.

Anyway I switched to installing on SSD and the performance has been vastly better. Night-and-day difference. I don't have a top of the line gaming PC (nVidia RTX 2070, 16GB RAM, Intel Core i7-10750H) so I still get some lag in the busier areas even on medium settings, but the game's perfectly playable for me now.

Bottom line, they are way the hell NOT joking about that SSD requirement! First game I've seen besides maybe Cyberpunk where not using SSD caused game-ruining performance issues. (Of course with Cyberpunk the issues I had could have been any number of things, but again it sure felt like not being able to load assets quickly enough was a key problem.)

[Black Raven]

Originally posted by NotACop2K:

I really don't understand, maybe i'm doing something wrong but I have this game at all low settings and it is practically unplayable. Mainly gpu issues and I'm running a nvidia 3070 ti. Wondering if anyone else had this issue.

It impossible to know what issue is with just a GPU name

You need

CPU - type - speed -cores
Memory - type - speed
HDD? SSD? M.2?

Gsync? - Freesync? - TV? - monitor with no variable refresh

these are all critical factors.

Too many people throw all the money into high end GPU, while the rest on their system holds back its potential performance

[majorvex]

It could be one of many issues:
Poor quality SSD drive - used, errors, damaged, near end of life...
CPU and/or GPU overheating.
Old/poor quality cables.
Internet modem/router overheating.
IP throttling.
Poor wifi connection instead of a direct line.
Anti-cheat software or other resource heavy/competing software running in the background.
Using integrated graphics instead of your dedicated GPU (without knowing your mobo)
Is your PC refurbished or new? Is it a laptop?

[Fred Meister [FR]]

Hello, try this, it work very fine to me.

https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/994

The software avoid cpu peak for no reason so remove audio cut and stuttering.

[WulfRock]

10700K @3.8 GhZ, 3080, 64GB Ram, 3 2TB M.2. Game is constantly stuttering and almost unplayable. Graphics wise it is nothing special, just really poorly optimized. the game shouldn't run this poorly. I run star citizen no problem and star citizen has much better graphics. Honestly these designers are getting more terrible by the year. New game comes out and you got to do all of these tweaks to get it actually running. How about you fix your stuff. There seriously needs to be a consumer protection board for games. To many developers are being forced to push out half done games with the premise that "we can patch it later". This attitude has to change in the video game industry and gamers have to stop accepting it. I have been gaming since the 8086 days. I get it sometimes things have to be tweaked because developers can't plan for the endless combination of parts. But recently its really been getting bad.

[Tachyon]

Originally posted by Don Cartagena:

No issues here. i5-13600k/RTX 4080

I use an i5 as well, with a 1660Ti card and the apart from innumerable micro-loadings every time my character opens a new area (or coughs, ties his shoelaces, etc) the game looks ok and runs smoothly. (I'm too lazy to want to bother fitting an SSD just for this game)