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According to Bethesda Support, even the Intel Arc A770 GPU does not meet Starfield's PC minimum requirements.

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[–] ArbiterXero 218 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Translation: “we didn’t bother making this work with arc because the third party tool we used to port it from console to PC didn’t support it and we don’t give a fuck.

[–] GeneralEmergency 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"they'll be a mod made later"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

The mod will make the game free to play for everyone!

"Wait a minute..."

[–] RanchOnPancakes 31 points 1 year ago

"We are not actually very good at this how have you not figured this out yet?"

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[–] EuroNutellaMan 138 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I claim Bethesda's games do not meet the minimum requirement for me to pay for them instead of plundering

[–] Wodge 40 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Are pirates the vegans of pc gaming?

[–] EuroNutellaMan 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No, we don't cost you money and won't judge you as harshly for paying for the game.

We will however tuck you in bed at night and give you a little smooch on your forehead if you stay seeding.

[–] rigatti 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Vegans cost companies money? I'm confused.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Yeah they're based

[–] beefcat 9 points 1 year ago
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[–] YoBuckStopsHere 77 points 1 year ago (24 children)

This must be one of the worst-developed games in the last ten years. If a high-end PC can't run it, they did a shitty job designing it, and the graphics are not great. They spent zero time optimizing it.

[–] ProvableGecko 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So, another Bethesda game?

[–] YoBuckStopsHere 9 points 1 year ago

Pretty much

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

But we're a decade past where that's good enough. "Another Bethesda game" at that same Bethesda quality level now is a trash game.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I'm playing on Xbox gamepass and am pretty disappointed with the graphics (glad I didn't bother buying it on PC). The faces during dialogue look like they just upscaled obsidian slightly and slapped it in there.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bethesda doesn't seem to care about pr at all

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Did you forget literally everything about Fallout 76?

[–] themeatbridge 15 points 1 year ago

Bethesda has.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

They haven't for a while, remember the classic

we're not planning on doing anything about it

[–] RoyalEngineering 39 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This feels like the discussion then Fallout 4 was released. People were getting 15fps in the locations like the outdoor cities and Bethesda blamed it on the PC.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The game runs flawlessly on our dev* and testing** computers

(Dev computers are $4000 top of the line systems)

(Testing computers are the $4000 top of the line systems that they used last year)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

The answer is likely just that Bethesda coders are bad at optimization. They don't have to put out a quality product, so they never learn how to make one.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can't fix their middleware? My Arc a750 runs Cyberpunk & most other games much better than my brother's 3060.

[–] stankmut 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bethesda support saying the Intel Arc doesn't meet the minimum requirements doesn't mean they don't actually mean to support it. It means that support looked at the product requirements and didn't see Intel Arc listed or that the person confused it with the integrated graphics chip.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Bruh, 16GB vram isn't enough for their game? Holy hell, man 😂

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Meanwhile I'm running Starfield on a Steam Deck with zero issues and 30-60 FPS

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