has the game improved

[᠌ ᠌ ᠌ ᠌]

havent played since launch

[vonbleak]

Yes - Slowly but surely with each update... It is getting better over time...

There have been tons of bug fixes and a few nice addations/changes to the gameplay...

Personally im going to wait until a few more updates and the Shattered Space expansion are out, then i think it will be in pretty good shape...

[Perun LP]

I agree.

[Lankester Merrin]

Improved in what way you hope?

[PrahanaHazGutz]

Originally posted by Lankester Merrin:

Improved in what way?

I forget. You are playing this on Gamepass?

[MommaBee]

personally im running an rtx 4070 with a pretty high end CPU and other parts.
and even with optimization mods and other things to help.
I still have audio dysync issues, constant long load times because its trying to RENDER everything in the city at once.
so far my experience has been rocky and bumpy. maybe wait a bit? but again ive just got to level 8 and im having a hard time finding the "fun" in this game.
so far its been nothing but load screen, after load screen.
go to planet a, kill guy, return to planet b, tgalk to guy.
guy wants you to go to another plan and basically do the same ♥♥♥♥.

[Met A Demon Once]

It has always played pretty well if you have a PC to play it. There is a glitch here and there but every game has those.

This is what I run and note I run a SQL database which runs all the time doing updates while I am at it.

RTX 3080 Ti
I-9 CPU
32 GB RAM
3 x 2560x1440 144Hz Monitors.

[tkwoods]

Originally posted by MommaBee:

personally im running an rtx 4070 with a pretty high end CPU and other parts.
and even with optimization mods and other things to help.
I still have audio dysync issues, constant long load times because its trying to RENDER everything in the city at once.
so far my experience has been rocky and bumpy. maybe wait a bit? but again ive just got to level 8 and im having a hard time finding the "fun" in this game.
so far its been nothing but load screen, after load screen.
go to planet a, kill guy, return to planet b, tgalk to guy.
guy wants you to go to another plan and basically do the same ♥♥♥♥.

Game doe not need optimization mod... That may be your problem.

[Kathrynerius]

Originally posted by tkwoods:

Originally posted by MommaBee:

personally im running an rtx 4070 with a pretty high end CPU and other parts.
and even with optimization mods and other things to help.
I still have audio dysync issues, constant long load times because its trying to RENDER everything in the city at once.
so far my experience has been rocky and bumpy. maybe wait a bit? but again ive just got to level 8 and im having a hard time finding the "fun" in this game.
so far its been nothing but load screen, after load screen.
go to planet a, kill guy, return to planet b, tgalk to guy.
guy wants you to go to another plan and basically do the same ♥♥♥♥.

Game doe not need optimization mod... That may be your problem.

I dunno if it's changed since launch, but the game barely could hit 20FPS in most places for me with an RTX 2070 Super, 32GB of DDR4 Ram, and an i7-8700K at 5Ghz. Even Star Citizen ran better.

[oak]

As it's become a kind of obvious problem: check your storage devices people :)

Unless you are running the most well optimised system possible, the way Starfield manages data if you have a hard drive, not an SSD, then you *will* get stuttering, but audio and visual, and horrible loading screen times.

(if you're reading that, running it off a hard drive and not getting stuttering issues, congratulations! you're running a well optimised system on decent hardware)

Originally posted by Kathrynerius:

Originally posted by tkwoods:

Game doe not need optimization mod... That may be your problem.

I dunno if it's changed since launch, but the game barely could hit 20FPS in most places for me with an RTX 2070 Super, 32GB of DDR4 Ram, and an i7-8700K at 5Ghz. Even Star Citizen ran better.

What resolution and what storage? I'm running a Ryzen 3600, 32GB DDR4 + a 2070 Super pushing 1440p with the OS and game on NVME storage. 20fps would be a minimum framerate when it's struggling, which isn't that often, most often approx 60fps or better. At launch I think I was getting 25-45 I think and pretty patchy frametimes?, but game and driver updates have made significant improvements.

[Vlad 254]

Originally posted by ᠌ ᠌ ᠌ ᠌:

havent played since launch

I've always had excellent performance with Starfield with FPS in the 90's on the low side, in other words I'm not really going much below that number and usually higher.

I play on a i9-12900K, RTX 3090, game's installed on an nvme SSD, Windows 11
My setting are on Ultra, playing at 2560x1440

I've put 1,900 hours into this game so yes, it's been fun since day 1
and I'm playing on thesame character save I created on 8/31/2024

But yes, as satisfied as I've been with this game since day 1 it's only gotten better with each update. Win Win.

So if you have a decent up to date rig the gane has always ran well. But if you are closer to minimum requirements and don't upkeep your machine then sure you'll see a bigger improvement.

[tkwoods]

Originally posted by Kathrynerius:

Originally posted by tkwoods:

Game doe not need optimization mod... That may be your problem.

I dunno if it's changed since launch, but the game barely could hit 20FPS in most places for me with an RTX 2070 Super, 32GB of DDR4 Ram, and an i7-8700K at 5Ghz. Even Star Citizen ran better.

It has changed drastically from launch. Many of the mods for optimizing are no longer needed since the game added the stuff native. Starfield has higher facet counts than most game so you are not comparing apples to apples when compared to other games.

I have a 4070ti, I7 13700K, 32bg DDR4, 1tb M.2 NVWE, B690 motherboard.
Game runs 100fps now most places for the low. I have it capped at 165fps . Almost everything set to Ultimate, 1080P.

[kdodds]

Originally posted by Vlad 254:

Originally posted by ᠌ ᠌ ᠌ ᠌:

havent played since launch

I've always had excellent performance with Starfield with FPS in the 90's on the low side, in other words I'm not really going much below that number and usually higher.

I play on a i9-12900K, RTX 3090, game's installed on an nvme SSD, Windows 11
My setting are on Ultra, playing at 2560x1440

I've put 1,900 hours into this game so yes, it's been fun since day 1
and I'm playing on thesame character save I created on 8/31/2024

But yes, as satisfied as I've been with this game since day 1 it's only gotten better with each update. Win Win.

So if you have a decent up to date rig the gane has always ran well. But if you are closer to minimum requirements and don't upkeep your machine then sure you'll see a bigger improvement.

Same here with decidedly less hours. I think I might be around 300 with a single character who has yet to "finish" the MQ. I had a health hiatus, but have since played last weekend and look forward to this weekend as well. I haven't encountered any serious issues, just minor graphical glitches mostly, and a single workaround to a minor side quest. I'm 1 gen ahead of the above (13900, 4090) and am playing at 4K Ultra, with DLSS and FG. I'm steadily over 120fps in NA, which seems to be the Dragons Keep (SK)/Corvega (FO4) busiest area of SF. For me, most of the changes have been purely additional goodies on top of an already great game. I started a new character for this run, mostly because I didn't like the direction I was going with my previous "main" toon.

[Ricky Icky]

Gameplay wise I'd say the game is pretty much the same, if you didn't like it before you still wont. That said, if your concern was performance hopefully its improved now with the patches.

Performance can certainly kill your enjoyment with the game....I wound up getting a new rig and getting a consistent frame rate allowed to me really get into the game and i even changed my review from negative to positive.

[Mick Savage]

Well there's 7k online right now which is a huge jump, so I'd say the last patch is working.
Lets hope it continue but doesn't end up like NMS and take years.