Todd Howard tells Starfield players to upgrade their PCs

Starfield It was officially released on Xbox Series Potato physics is really cool. But some computer users They were disappointed– Why does the game seem to be struggling on their PC? In an interview with Bloomberg Technology,Bethesda and Starfield Director Todd Howard suggests it’s time for an upgrade.

“I asked our audience: What would you ask Todd?” Bloomberg said announcer Ed Ludlow. “The big question for many: ‘Why didn’t you optimize this game for PC?'”

“Oh, we did it,” Howard said during this. Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer He laughed. “It’s going great. It’s a next-gen PC game. We’re really pushing technology, so you may need to upgrade your PC for this game. But there’s a lot of great things going on in it, and the fans are responding great.”

Some fans respond with annoyance.

“Ah, yeah, a ‘next-gen’ game that can’t even handle small interiors without needing a loading screen first,” says one popular YouTube commenter.

“The game has not been improved at all,” declared another popular comment on Twitter. “My 4090 can’t even reach 60 fps in many areas and [it crashes] every time with DLSS3 [frame generation] modern.”

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It can be frustrating to get to the point where your computer can’t keep up with the latest games, but that’s part of the endeavour. No one enjoys spending $400 on a new CPU, but we also spend $400 on a new console every six years.

for pc, Bethesda recommends At least the following: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X or Intel Core i7-6800K processor, AMD Radeon RX 5700 or NVIDIA GeForce 1070 Ti graphics card, and 16GB of RAM. His support website, like Howard’s, suggests that if you’re running on material performance issues or crash ityou must make sure that your computer meets the minimum requirements for the game…but keep in mind that the “minimum” will not appear CPU intensive game Likes Starfield At its best.