Starfield System Requirements - Is Your PC Ready?

In this video we go through the PC system requirements for Starfield, we go through the minimum and recommended settings, trying to make sense of the choices they've made alongside the recent news that on console, the game will be limited to 30 frames per second, asking how that might affect frame rates over on PC.

▼ My PC System Specs ▼

CPU: AMD 5600X
GPU: Nvidia 3070 (Gigabyte Eagle OC)
RAM: 32GB Corsair Vengeance RGB 3600 CL16
Motherboard: MSI B550-A Pro
SSD: 1TB Samsung 980 Pro
PSU: Seasonic S12iii 650w
Case: NZXT H510

▼ Peripherals ▼

Monitor: Dell S2721DGFA 165Hz 27” IPS Display
Mouse: Corsair Ironclad RGB Wireless
Keyboard: Corsair K65 RGB MINI 60% Mechanical Gaming Keyboard

▼ AV Gear ▼

Microphone: Pyle PDMIC58
Audio Interface: GoXLR Mini
Camera: Sony A5000 Mirrorless
Camera Capture Card: Cheap, no-name £15 USB 2.0 from Amazon!

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00:00 - Introduction
00:16 - SSD Required!
00:38 - RAM
01:14 - GPU
04:25 - CPU

[mwrench]

The 8 GB VRAM might prove problematic for a lot of users, especially latop users. The 3060 laptop which is like the 4th or 5th most popular card according to Steam runs only 6 GB VRAM. These laptops pass all the other requirements but not this one. It's a bit disapointing, but it is what it is.

[elguitarTom]

doesnt matter. it will lagg, stutter and crash regardless. CREATION ENGINE!!!

[DavidA]

Mine is ready or at least it better be!
My rig
Case: Hyte Y60 Snow White
Custom hardline watercooled 7900x3D and 7900XTX with 760mm worth of radiator with manual overclocks.
I also have 64gb of DDR5 clocked to 5600mhz. I must’ve got lucky in the silicone lottery because a lot of people people can’t overclock past 4800 MHz.
I just upgraded my boot drive to a Crucial T700 gen5 m.2. And yes, my motherboard has Gen 5.
I have 8 fans 6-120mm and 2-140mm

[Hughesburner]

Going in with a i7-9700/16gb/2x500gb Nvme's/GTX 1080. I have most the parts (all EK) for a custom loop for the GTX1080. I plan to complete the loop and bump up to 32gb or 64gb for ram. This game will slightly determine my jump back to RTX. I had both a RTX 3060 and RTX3070 FTW during the pandemic. I got busy with work and was able to sell them at a profit, so off they went. My local used market is full of affordable RTX cards, as the miners are still unloading, even this far out. Great video..sub'd.

[Hrsi]

The 8GB is not as big a deal as people think. Ultimately, if the frame buffer can fit in there and there are enough raster operators on the unit, it falls down to the devs to optimise the scene rendering so it doesn't eat up humorously lump amounts of vram. I've been playing on a gtx 1070 ever since I bought it a year after it came out and I have to admit, it work just fine on 1440p with some reasonable tweaks here and there. If I can pull 50-60 fps on this fossil in most games I play (anything one can imagine when it comes to single player games - Cyberpunk, Witcher 3, X4, Scorn, HZD, Satiffactory, Valheim, Dying Light 2/*this one seems to perform the worst out of the entire bunch, dropping into the middle 30s here and there with fsr on*/, etc), then people should be able to get relatively stable fps on better units. And I don't even bother dropping the details all that much.

Also, a fair reminder - it's a Bethesda game. It will suck in it's first year after release.

[WaywardLone]

Will be going into Starfield with a RTX 2080 and i7-9700k. Confident it will be a smooth experience. Cyberpunk's Phantom Liberty/Update has me worried.

[__username]

I've got 12400f (slightly better than stock 10700k) + 3060ti (g6x) (basically 2% worse than 3070, so equivalent to 2080ti) + 32 gb ddr4 (3733mhz, cl17) + sata ssd with dram. it's slightly above recomended, so, i guess, I shouldn't have problems running this game. I'm glad some companies still make well-optimized games oriented on mid-range hardware

[Ichinin]

Gonna run StarField on my 1070 (8 Gig VRam in it). Had a discussion with others on a gaming forum and they said that it will run, but slightly lower perf than 1070TI. As long as there are no shaders or special modes on the minimum spec cards that are "required", you should be able to run the game with that. I don't mind fiddling with some settings to get it to run decently rather than spend €300-800 on a new graphics card for just one game.

[kruimels]

My computer:
2 x 2 TB SSD ( total 4 TB )
Processor: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11700F @ 2.50GHz, 2496 MHz, 8 core('s), 16 logische processor(s)
Graphic Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
32 GB Memory
Monitor Ultra Wide 49 inch curved monitor ( 5120 x 1440 / 5K )

I hope I can play the game on 5120 x 1440 Resolution.

[justinjohnson]

these comments are scary . why is no one using 32gb of ram minimum? you have 800$ for a GPU but not 80 for 32gb of ram???

[domix]

Currently after a recent upgrade I'm on an i7-9700k with a RTX 4080. Not really worried about the GPU side, but CPU requirements really shot up lately, I thought I could wait with the CPU Upgrade for some years...

[devonweston]

Going into Starfield with a 4080 master 16gb, 13th gen i7, 32gb ddr5 that I just built! Should be able to handle all of the newer games without breaking a sweat.

[MidnightMechanic]

Here's something weird, the game's product key comes with several models of the 6700xt and 6750xt, so it's possible to net the game for free with those cards!

[Trusteft]

So I finally reached the point where my PC is below the minimum system requirements of a game. Not anything I can do about it, no money, but such is life. Keep on fighting GTX 1660 Super and i7 5960X!

[Spinnekk]

Playing on PC at 1440P with a 3600X and a 2070 Super with 16GB 3600mhz. I'm somewhere in the middle in terms of specs; the 2080 is slightly faster than the 2070S. I don't mind playing at 30FPS (or even 40 which does feel a lot better than 30, especially with a 120hz monitor) provided the frame time consistency is good.

[leroyhendricks]

I'm currently in the process of building a gaming/photo/video editing system with a custom water loop. Replacing my intel i7-3770k, GTX1060, 32GB ram with a Ryzen 9 5950X, RTX3090, 128GB ram. Hopefully, the new system will give me 12 years of use also, or at least around 10 years.

[albeal]

I have an AMD Rizen 9 3900X, Geforce 2070 Super 8GB video card, 32 gigs of ram, 2x 2tb ssd's and 100 watt PS. Yet I am hearing conflicting reports on my GPU. I am still doing the research and will reach out to ya when I get more details. TY for the vid, learned a cpl new things from you, thx for that. Keep up the work you've earned my

[billwiley]

My current rig is a 12700k, 32GB DDR5, 3090ti and have remained on 1440p to lengthen the lifespan of the hardware going forward with newer games rather than do the 4k thing.
At my age with my old eyes I would not see that much if any difference between 1440 and 4k anyway.

[willianjohnam]

I'm with you in the gut felling that the game will be heavy on CPU.
My bet is that to run it without any issue it will require a Zen3 Processeor like the Ryzen 5 5600 or above.

[mikerochburns]

I'll pick the game up in a year or so when it's been fixed.
My Steam backlog is quite hefty, so in no rush.