Are my PC specs enough?

[CrankyQuack]

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz
Ram 16 GB

Thoughts?

[Silyth]

Originally posted by Al Abaster:

Originally posted by FeilDOW:

8gb likely won't be good for 1440p, what GPU has 32gb?

None that I'm aware of, I was speaking to his (unquoted) claim that you need 32GB of RAM.

Uhh your lost haha
Your confusing RAM with VRAM. 32gb of ram is overkill, 16 is still totally fine. 8gb of vram is what will likely be the issue for anyone wanting a 1440p 60+ fps experience, maybe even at 1080p with textures on ultra.
Nvidia really f”d everyone with the 30 series vram unless you got a 3060 or 3090

[patrick68794]

You'll be able to play the game, it probably won't run very well though without FSR

[Mack]

If it's at 1080p you might get away with it.. but I'd be considering an upgrade.

[harisenvin]

thats a quad core bro, a decade old one. you need at LEAST a MODERN 6 core. any from 2020 onwards will do. GPU might be able to handle low 1080p. maybe even 60fps low with FSR with a good CPU. it will be blurry AF but hey

[Paul Sachs]

Originally posted by harisenvin:

thats a quad core bro, a decade old one. you need at LEAST a MODERN 6 core. any from 2020 onwards will do. GPU might be able to handle low 1080p. maybe even 60fps low with FSR with a good CPU. it will be blurry AF but hey

what about a i7 9700k? 5 years old now, but above minimum specs (though has less threads as an 8/8 cpu)

[HeyYou]

Originally posted by Paul Sachs:

Originally posted by harisenvin:

thats a quad core bro, a decade old one. you need at LEAST a MODERN 6 core. any from 2020 onwards will do. GPU might be able to handle low 1080p. maybe even 60fps low with FSR with a good CPU. it will be blurry AF but hey

what about a i7 9700k? 5 years old now, but above minimum specs (though has less threads as an 8/8 cpu)

That's what I am running, and I am just not concerned. I have no doubt my machine will play the game rather nicely.

[-={LG}=-]

Originally posted by katzenkrimis:

16GB RAM is low. 32GB is the norm these days.

The "Recommended" requirement for Starfield is 16GB of RAM.

Originally posted by harisenvin:

you need at LEAST a MODERN 6 core.

I'd be surprised to find Starfield using more than two cores.

The OP has 8GB of VRAM, definitely enough to run 1080p. On what settings remains to be seen and nobody has any idea. I personally wouldn't upgrade until after I installed and played the game with that system.

[FeilDOW]

Originally posted by -={LG}=-:

Originally posted by katzenkrimis:

16GB RAM is low. 32GB is the norm these days.

The "Recommended" requirement for Starfield is 16GB of RAM.

Originally posted by harisenvin:

you need at LEAST a MODERN 6 core.

I'd be surprised to find Starfield using more than two cores.

The OP has 8GB of VRAM, definitely enough to run 1080p. On what settings remains to be seen and nobody has any idea. I personally wouldn't upgrade until after I installed and played the game with that system.

It's a 4th gen intel with DDR3 RAM, of course it should be updated if OP wants to play new AAA games from this gen.

You're right this won't use 8 cores but it sure will need strong singlecore performance and that can be seen by a 30fps lock on the consoles. The CPU in the consoles is about 30% stronger singlecore performance.

I mean if OP want to wait and see the inevitable slideshow before upgrading it just means he'll need to wait longer to play the game.

[Deadoon]

Originally posted by harisenvin:

thats a quad core bro, a decade old one. you need at LEAST a MODERN 6 core. any from 2020 onwards will do. GPU might be able to handle low 1080p. maybe even 60fps low with FSR with a good CPU. it will be blurry AF but hey

The min spec is a quad core you know. 6800k 4c/8t cpu, just like the 4790. System specs show both 6 cores minimum, was misled by the hedt part, when it is usually consumer parts only.

Overall getting a new comp is probably the best bet. A r5 7600 or i5-13400 with some mid range card with good price/performance right now would be the best bet. Their current graphics card might be able to handle it with lowered resolution and upscaling techs.

Also for everyone else, don't do console comparisons apples to apples, it doesn't work like that. Consoles run oses with very little overhead and shared ram banks, so their efficiency with their limited resources is very high. However it rests upon the devs to leverage that potential efficiency well.

[FeilDOW]

Originally posted by Deadoon:

Originally posted by harisenvin:

thats a quad core bro, a decade old one. you need at LEAST a MODERN 6 core. any from 2020 onwards will do. GPU might be able to handle low 1080p. maybe even 60fps low with FSR with a good CPU. it will be blurry AF but hey

The min spec is a quad core you know. 6800k 4c/8t cpu, just like the 4790.

Overall getting a new comp is probably the best bet. A r5 7600 or i5-13400 with some mid range card with good price/performance right now would be the best bet. Their current graphics card might be able to handle it with lowered resolution and upscaling techs.

Also for everyone else, don't do console comparisons apples to apples, it doesn't work like that. Consoles run oses with very little overhead and shared ram banks, so their efficiency with their limited resources is very high. However it rests upon the devs to leverage that potential efficiency well.

The 6700k is 4/8 and the 6800k is 6/12, its actually a skylake X series CPU from Intel HEDT line.

[Deadoon]

Originally posted by FeilDOW:

The 6700k is 4/8 and the 6800k is 6/12, its actually a skylake X series CPU from Intel HEDT line.

Oh, that is so freaking weird to have a hedt part on the system specs, that threw me off. Correcting that now.

[MAD MARX]

Originally posted by Shizzle Whizzle:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz
Ram 16 GB

Thoughts?

when fallout 4 came out.
i tweaked a lot in ini file to make it run okeish...
windowed 800*600
extra low with many tweaks to make it even lower.
and even then had some frezzes for half a minute in special places.
...
same time witcher 3 came out.
also windowed,800*600
streaming of models and textures.. as little as possible..
funny to run in a city.. where houses only 20 meters away

[[82AD] Karvan]

Originally posted by Shizzle Whizzle:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz
Ram 16 GB

Thoughts?

You'll probably be okay on 1080P with minimal settings. If Bethesda can be bothered to properly optimize the game, i'm sure you can obtain somewhere between 30-60fps with your setup. I'm sure it'll be playable, as long Bethesda optimizes the game, which.. well, i'm gonna give a optimistic 50-50% chance.

Originally posted by wtiger27:

Originally posted by Womb2DaTomb:

I have a 3070 with an old 4790K, so far my CPU is still holding it's own, hopefully Starfield will be OK.

I think Starfield is going to be more CPU demanding than GPU. Not going to hurt to try it.

But I think you are going to find out your I7 4790k is going to be a issue. It's two generations below the required min for the CPU. The game may be playable however, but maybe not up to a performance level to be enjoyable.

But I may be wrong. I do not think anyone outside of Beth knows for sure at this point. But they selected the 6th series Intel I7 cpu as the min for a reason.

They always list slightly higher specs than required, so they get as few refunds due to poor performance. This is nothing new, devs been doing this for ever. 4cores 8 threads is fine to run just about everything today, within acceptable limits. That cpu clocks between 4 and 4.4ghz which is not bad even today. It's old, yes, not ancient. You'd be surprised how often older parts can still run modern things.
The creation engine from fallout and skyrim also tended to draw the gpu more than cpu, so knowing bethesda coding, it's likely going to be the same.

Anyway, check out https://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri "Can I run it". it scans your hardware and sees what kind of performance you can expect.

[Area 51 Employee]

Maybe check this link out?

https://www.box.co.uk/best-pcs-for-starfield

I have a GTX 1660 and they suggest that this will work on low settings.

[Farnhams Erben]

< I will play this on a P-45 Maximus II Formula with X5492, 4x4Gig DDR2Dual-Channel-800, 6k-4,5k SSD´s & a sweet RTX3060-Dual 12g @2k 27""

Da ♥♥♥♥, my 2011v3 Rampage V /Ed.10 with 6950X burnt 3 days ago -.-

Not enough time to build up a new system in 4 weeks. So i got my grandpa PC up to running again. Last day installed Dualboot W10 & 11. I´m still surprised, that this ♥♥♥♥ is running witout UEFI.

And of course... I´m very happy -.-
I would like to have all your worries now

Maybe i should do a vid from this^^