Subj : Todd Howard wants you to upgrade your PC for Starfield
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Thu Sep 07 2023 16:15:03

Todd Howard wants you to upgrade your PC for Starfield

Date:
Thu, 07 Sep 2023 14:59:26 +0000

Description:
Todd Howard has clarified that Starfield has been optimized for PC, but some 
"may need to upgrade" their setups for it.

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If youve been having trouble running Starfield on your PC, game director Todd 
Howard thinks you may need to upgrade, as the title has already been 
optimized. 

As GamesRadar+ reports , in an interview with Bloomberg Technology, Howard 
and Xbox boss Phil Spencer were asked a number of audience questions, one of 
which was simply: Why did you not optimize this game for PC? 

We did, its running great, Howard responded, as Spencer laughed in the 
background. It is a next-gen PC game. We really do push the technology, so 
you may need to upgrade your PC for this game, but its got a lot of great 
stuff going on in it, and the fans are responding awesomely. 

Howards response may come as a surprise to some, since over the last week, 
while gamers have been getting stuck into the space-exploration RPG, a number 
of posts have surfaced online of players flagging PC performance issues. In a 
thread on Starfield s Steam Community, one player alleged : If I set the 
graphics settings to low, for every setting at 1080p resolution, I still get 
constant stuttering, screen tearing, and my frame rate is all over the place, 
between 40 and 55 FPS. My computer is above [the] recommended specs for this 
game. There is something very wrong with the performance of this game. 

At the time of writing, however, Starfield has a very positive rating on 
Steam, as 83% of its reviews have been positive. Yesterday (September 6), the 
game managed to accumulate over one million concurrent players across PC, 
Xbox Series X|S and cloud streaming - while the exact number per platform 
hasnt been revealed, data shows that Steam saw a peak of 269,177. 

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for more worlds to get lost in.



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/gaming/pc-gaming/todd-howard-wants-you-to-upgrade-yo
ur-pc-for-starfield


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