Starfield and the System Requirements

 Starfield and Its System Requirements



One of the great conundrums for many gamers, especially those who PCs is that the video games that they wish to play have high system requirements. This is simply a fact of life when it comes to video gaming. Many gamers come from a variety of backgrounds and yet it seems that games are more geared towards the upper-middle class and those of the upper class. Poorer gamers get left behind and have to make do with less powerful computers. The ability of gamers to adapt is one of the tales of legend as many mods have been created for video games allowing for players with what is called potato computers to be able to play some of the latest games. 

According to this article, Starfield is going to have some very demanding requirements. It is one of the first games that I can remember that requires a SSD and shuns mechanical storage devices like Hard Drives. 

Starfield and Solid-State Drives Requirement


One of the most important reasons why SSDs are often better than HDDs is that the SSDs are reliant on flash memory and have no moving parts, which means they are more of a purely digital nature vs the more mechanical hard drives, that have a long lineage in the Computer industry, going back to the 1950s. I have been using SSDs on my main computer for several years and I am very happy with the performance that it has given. While I like the high storage counts of Hard Drives, I am very impressed with how loading screens are less of an issue with SSDs. If you ware going to play this game, you are going to have to have an SSD in order to play it. 


Starfield and Storage Space Requirement


Starfield is a huge game, topping at 125 GB of space. In comparison with the most popular game of 2011, Skyrim, that game was little more than over 10 GB in space. The only game from the past 10 years that I can think that takes up that much space is Grand Theft Auto V made by Rockstar Games. That game came out in 2013 and had stellar reviews. It was a pioneer in the open world titles. I hope the same will happen for Starfield. I expect that Starfield is going to be a massive game that is going to change the industry and change the public's perception of space sims. 

Starfield and Ram 

Random Access Memory has always been important part of the gaming experience. It has been the trusty servant of the computer, giving it breathing room as the cpu goes into memory to sort out the stuff that is needed to get the game to run smoothly. My current computer only has 8GB of memory and Starfield demands about 16 GB. This is really important. Gaming standards are changing and I recommend that you buy a computer or upgrade to 32 GB. That is the middle ground that will allow for you to get the best performance possible and the best value for your money.

Starfield and Graphics Cards

Graphics Cards are the workhorse of the computer when it comes to rendering images. Without such contraptions, our games would still look like they did during the Atari 2600 era. Not saying that those games didn't have their appeal, but we demand better graphics with every generation. Starfield apparently seems to have a sponsorship with AMD and that the game is more geared towards AMD graphics than the old standby, Nvidia. Both companies are okay for using in your gaming laptop or computer but make sure that the graphics card that you have in your computer is one that is devoted towards rendering for games. Starfield is no game for an integrated graphics card. I have spent too much time with weak integrated graphics to recommend even buying a laptop with one of those cards. 

Starfield and the CPU Requirement

As with any game in this genre, Starfield is going to be a game that is going to be CPU-heavy rather than graphics heavy. It is because of this that clock speed and overclocking will be key to helping players get as much performance as possible with their computers.

Starfield and the AMD Partnership

According to the AMD website, Starfield's development team has partnered with AMD as the ''exclusive pc partner'' for the game. My general thought on this is that Nvidia just missed an opportunity here but the company has been expanding beyond the realm of video games, so I do not think that they are that worried about that. AMD isn't generally a company that I use for my computer's CPU and GPU but this announcement may convince to switch. 

What do these system requirements mean?

It means that this is going to be a huge game that is also a game changer for the space sim rpg. Of course, not every development studio out there can spend millions of dollars on a game but Starfield's requirements show that Bethesda Game Studios is devoted to actually making this game a success. This is not another project for them; This is a generational game that people will look back on as the genesis of some great and triumphant. Especially in the realm of space sims, Starfield will be the Star Wars eqivalent in terms of its culutral impact and how it will influence the industry in the years to come. 







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