Ah, space, the final frontier. Or perhaps a place that you can escape to, as Tim Curry used to say. Anyway, it is where we want to spend the rest of our lives, exploring planets around and finding new unexplored star systems. Bethesda’s Starfield will allow us to do all that, of course. But… what are the Starfield system requirements?
Naturally, we can expect the studio to be working again its magic on the upcoming RPG title, from what we’ve seen there’s definitely some AAA production quality at work. Therefore, we can be fairly sure that it will be difficult that our grandpa’s computer, which barely manages to run Facebook so he can post his racist rants, will be up to scratch.
Let us then speculate a bit on the basis of what we’ve seen, here’s everything we have discovered so far about the Starfield system requirements for PC.
Starfield system requirements
Minimum:
- OS: Windows 10 version 22H2 (10.0.19045)
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X, Intel Core i7-6800K
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 5700, NVIDIA GeForce 1070 Ti
- DirectX: Version 12
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 125 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD Required
Recommended:
- OS: Windows 10/11 with updates
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, Intel i5-10600K
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
- DirectX: Version 12
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 125 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD Required
As you can see, the requirements for Starfield are pretty beefy. So much so that even the minimum requirements require you to have a decent rig. And you’ll need a good SSD to load in all those promised planets. It’s worth it though.
Bethesda has confirmed that the game will run at a fixed 30FPS on Xbox (because of “creative decisions” apparently), so that should probably at least give some older PCs a chance to run it decently as well.
We’ll update this section as soon as we get more accurate information.
What do you think? Will you upgrade your old computer just to have a shot at running decently Bethesda’s upcoming RPG? Or will you play it on consoles? Well, with your old computer you can definitely have some fun with games with lesser production values but still plenty of fun, like Vampire Survivors and Stardew Valley, which you can check out our guides for.