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[Draugoth]

Bloomberg audience Q: Why did you not optimize Starfield for PC?

Todd Howard: we did... you might need to upgrade your PC

 

[Montauk]

Another great thread incoming!

 

[Tommi84]

How about no, Todd?

 

[Salz01]

If I had a dollar for every Starfield thread, I’d buy my own island.

on topic , it’s kind of bs to upgrade I thought he said it’s optimized to run on several CPU’s

 

[Luipadre]

I mean the game looks great, but still doesnt justify the HW it needs to run at 60+ fps so try harder bethesda

 

[MCplayer]

The audacity

 

[GHG]

Oh dear Todd.

16 times the refunds.

 

[LazyParrot]

The game isn't exactly ugly, but it also isn't nearly enough of a looker to justify the fact that you need a 4070 to hit 60 fps at 1080p with high settings.

 

[acm2000]

The game isn't exactly ugly, but it also isn't nearly enough of a looker to justify the fact that you need a 4070 to hit 60 fps at 1080p with high settings.

yes because graphics are the only things game engines do, game is cpu heavy not gpu.

 

[Heisenberg007]

"We really push the technology."

 

[Lukaku's First Touch]

Holy shit that disgusting PR speak at the end.

 

[brian0057]

I see what Nintendo is capable of achieving on what amounts to a 6 year old smarphone and suddenly everyone bitching about "weak hardware" when it comes to both the Series S and this thread is full of shit.

 

[Heisenberg007]

The audacity

 

[Quixz]

The game does look good enough to warrant the high system requirements to be playable.

 

[The Cockatrice]

How about Todd gets his ass upgraded with my foot? I just dont know how Bethesda can get away easily with performance issues and bugs. Every single game. Even steam users who are unforgiving as hell, are rating Fallout 4 in space, highly. Its not a bad game but I just cant ignore its issues. I've only played 4 hours but no way this game deservers anything higher than 7.5 unless somehow the story is insane.

 

[Negotiator101]

If I had a dollar for every Starfield thread, I’d buy my own island.

on topic , it’s kind of bs to upgrade I thought he said it’s optimized to run on several CPU’s

Runs great.

 

[adamsapple]

Yes, Todd. Why doesn't the game run on an 960M !

 

[ByWatterson]

The audacity

Toddacity

 

[ReBurn]

Based

 

[Negotiator101]

Bloomberg audience Q: Why did you not optimize Starfield for PC?

Todd Howard: we did... you might need to upgrade your PC

You have to admire his balls.

 

[Elysium44]

Yes, Todd. Why doesn't the game run on an 960M !

It barely manages 30fps on the 'recommended' specs.

He is basically admitting the recommended specs are wrong.

 

[Montauk]

The game isn't exactly ugly, but it also isn't nearly enough of a looker to justify the fact that you need a 4070 to hit 60 fps at 1080p with high settings.

Yeah, because the only thing the game is doing is rendering the graphics. There’s definitely nothing else going on that it needs processing power for.

 

[Juza]

"It is a next-gen PC game! We really do push the technology."

 

[GHG]

Speaking of which, where the hell is Alex's digital foundry PC analysis for this game?

 

[Duchess]

The game was actually running at a locked 60fps, 1440p on PS5 before the cancellation.

(some parts of that sentence may not be factually correct)

 

[Mister Wolf]

Don't go cheap on the CPU.

 

[Topher]

Game hasn't been been updated on PC since it went into early access.

 

[Sentenza]

Speaking of which, where the hell is Alex's digital foundry PC analysis for this game?

"EVERYTHING STUTTERS ALL THE TIME".

There, done.

 

[GrayChild]

16 times the optimization, ey Todd?

 

[analog_future]

 

[RoboFu]

The drops for me seem to be in the more character populated areas. I wonder if it has more to do with the game keeping up with simulation aspect of the characters and then updating all the characterobjects in the area?
They can hide most of that in the load screens but not when the actual characters are in the area it has to be updated almost per-frame for each.

Just a guess.

 

[Chuck Berry]

 

[WalletBoy]

I don't know about that. I know the game is supposed to be optimized for AMD cards, but I have a 4080 with 32GB RAM and 13700k and it dips below 60FPS in some areas.

 

[Kenpachii]

Todd is a legend.

No matter the amount of shit he feeds us, he always has a way out.

The fact the game doesn't have dlss 2 and 3 already goes against his logic of its already well optimized.

 

[LazyParrot]

Yeah, because the only thing the game is doing is rendering the graphics. There’s definitely nothing else going on that it needs processing power for.

Oh no. You're one of those people who think Bethesda games keep the location of every object in the entire game in memory at all times, aren't you?

 

[Elysium44]

Speaking of which, where the hell is Alex's digital foundry PC analysis for this game?

Good question. I remember they were critical of the PC port of TLOU part 1. The difference with that game is at least the developers quickly came out and apologised for the poor performance, and have made big strides to fix it (it still isn't perfect but it's a lot better). But Bethesda are saying it's fine, just upgrade your PC

 

[clem84]

"It's already been optimized. Just buy a new GPU, peasant."

 

[Mephisto40]

Wow, Todd you absolute scumbag

 

[mansoor1980]

surprised he didnt say "upgrade your PC with AMD hardware"

see that 7800x3d/7900xtx ? you can buy it

 

[Buggy Loop]

"We optimized as far as this shitcan old engine allowed us to"

There, i fixed it.

 

[ipukespiders]

BRB, getting a second job.

 

[winjer]

 

[Cimarron]

No it is not. I have an absolute beast of a build. When SF runs it runs well! But it frequently crashes are freezes when the game saves or goes into different zones. I am running it on a 4090. It seems a lot of team green players are having issues. My CPU is a I9-10 series.

 

[Madflavor]

Ooooh, try again Todd.

 

[Elder Legend]

LOL at Phil Spencer pulling his head back when Todd said we did optimize. This isnthe funniest shit I've ever seen.

 

[feynoob]

He learned from the best

 

[GHG]

Good question. I remember they were critical of the PC port of TLOU part 1. The difference with that game is at least the developers quickly came out and apologised for the poor performance, and have made big strides to fix it (it still isn't perfect but it's a lot better). But Bethesda are saying it's fine, just upgrade your PC

It's strange because he's usually so quick with it, if not on YouTube then at least on Twitter with a couple of statements here and there.

Even with the early exclusive access they got they are still dragging their feet on this one. I wonder why.

 

[mansoor1980]

LOL at Phil Spencer pulling his head back when Todd said we did optimize. This isnthe funniest shit I've ever seen.

they are straight up trolling PC users

 

[Elysium44]

 

[mansoor1980]