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Starfield PC requirements revealed; SSD required, 16GB RAM minimum, 125GB free disk space

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Bethesda has just shared the official PC system requirements for its upcoming space RPG, Starfield. According to the specs, the game will require 125GB of free disk space, will be using the DX12 API, and will require an SSD.

Do note that a “normal” SATA SSD will be enough. You won’t need an NVMe SSD in order to play the game. And, let’s be realistic here. Is anyone gaming with an HDD and not a SATA SSD in 2023? So no, this does not seem unrealistic.

Bethesda has listed the AMD Ryzen 5 2600X and the Intel Core i7-6800K as the minimum required CPUs. Moreover, the game will need at least 16GB of RAM to run. The AMD Radeon RX 5700 and the NVIDIA GeForce 1070 Ti are also listed as the minimum required GPUs.

Bethesda recommends using an AMD Ryzen 5 3600X or an Intel i5-10600K with an AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT or an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080.

Unfortunately, Bethesda has not listed the resolutions, settings and framerates that these PC specs target.

Starfield will release on September 6th!

Starfield Direct – Gameplay Deep Dive

Starfield PC Requirements

MINIMUM:

    • OS: Windows 10 version 2004 (10.0.19041.0)
    • 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

86 thoughts on “Starfield PC requirements revealed; SSD required, 16GB RAM minimum, 125GB free disk space”

      1. Is starfield online play like Diablo 3 when it came out? Could you confirm is it only for the installation and activation, please?

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    3. And all these idiots pre-ordering the game… its Bethesda, its probably gonna be a sh*t show at launch and for weeks. People preordering games are why we cant have nice things.

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    1. no it means the game will have to stream so many gbs of data while playing that you will have extreme stutter and freezes for a few second and it will destroy your hdd due to heavy usage, it wont be able to move data from memory to the drive and back fast enough.

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  5. Honestly this game is like bethesda made fallout 4 in space and copied no mans sky planet generation and dog fighting while copying the visual style of star citizen and elite dangerous.

    I like how realistic the lighting looks, but notice how there is always volumetric fog so you cant see far away and all the planets look like a barren desert, nothing makes me want to explore more than seeing an empty barren background. Right?

    The weapon design is so generic, some p90, a double barrel shotgun, a vektor, a m1911 and a ak74, like really? What happened to weird energy weapons? If you go back to early to mid 2000s you got interesting sci fi weapons? What happened? “oh but they want to make it more realistic” sure but in that case why make it a rpg with bulletspongy enemies? We know for a fact that the actual role playing in the game will be really low, at times i looked at the sniping outpost clearing and i was saying “is this the new far cry game in space?” This is what it feels like, every game now looks the same. Speaking of which the hud is so simplistic its like a toddler drew a bunch of lines, it does not draw the eye, it has no unique areas on it, everything is white letter boxes.

    The fascination with realism has even removed the aliens and you only fight humans, but then again you got this unrealistic idea that in the future white people will be near extinct and every character will be a brown woman, seriously the entire xbox show was brown woman shows game starring brown woman followed by trailer about brown woman. Jeez. They mention that they got for a cinematic look and yeah the game looks like the expanse and interstellar looking at vasco. The ship designs look generic ugly and samey, i didnt expect them to be this big, you telling me the fighter starting ship is bigger than my house? Damn. I guess this game will leave on die on 2 things, having a good main campaign, which i doubt, its bethesda or the modding scence, since this is skyrim for space nerds.

    Unreal to think that spacebourne 2 is made by one guy and has most of these features.

    Overall i approach this game as beggars cant be choosers, i like sci fi, i dont like medieval fantasy, its so overdone and the mod support will make this game worth it in the long term. Also no crappy third person shoulder camera. Hopefully it wont be a unmitigated disaster on release.

    Oh and one last thing, vlad looks russian, he even wears the russian marine blue undershirt. But he is black. Considering starfield dropped russian language support, seems to me they made vlad as a white russian and they made him black and dropped russian language support out of spite for the war in ukraine. Just laughable. Ex pirate turning good guy….and nope russians are bad again, lets make him black. Would be better if they kept him russian and then the more you interact with him you find out he is actually ukranian, but hey its bethesda we are talking about that thought bringing back the annoying fan from oblivion was a good idea, like these people are proud of that cringe. Speaking of which he looks more human than most of the characters in the game. How do you manage that bethesda?

    Also yes we all know the big reveal that the artifacts are from an alien race that will make an appearance in the game. I just wished they hired a competent sci fi writer to write the story instead of bethesda lobotomized monkeys who call themselves writers.

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      1. no its not no mans sky was an ugly blurry oversaturated mess with god awful combat and spaceship controls and there was no story or any missions, just repetitive grindfest and crafting. Legit one of the most boring games ever made.

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        1. Its crazy how they keep updating the game… but they wont freaking do a campaign. Seems to me they should put all their efforts on that… or just stop and make a new game already.

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    3. Hopefully the modding community will be fixing this game with overhauled npcs, quests and bugfixes like all elder scrolls and fallout games

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      1. yes this is how i am looking it as well with a “this is a palate of check lists to see what can be done with modding” but i gotta say npcs are not as bad as other games shown these few days but thats not because bethesda designs good npcs its that everyone else made theirs uglier. Also i bet the white vlad mod is gonna get banned.

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        1. yeah nexusmods team is banning anything that doesn’t fit with their agenda. I might have to start learning how to mod myself

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          1. modding is about replacing models and textures but DONT YOU DARE REPLACE THE RAINBOW FLAG AND THE VOICE OF THE TRANS CHARACTER IN THE HARRY POTTER GAME. Such clowns. Any other mod hosting sites?

    4. Speaking of which the hud is so simplistic its like a toddler drew a bunch of lines

      It needs to be simple… for consoles.

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    1. Just get a Game Pass gift card for a month and try it for $9.99 and if it sucks play one of the other games for a month and let your subscription expire

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      1. Give money to these corporations that deliver half finished product??? ahahahaha that’s a good joke…got another?

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  8. Looks like Skyrim meets this documentary Alien Planet. Looks interesting but will definetly wait for reviews.

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  10. Leaves me out in the rain as I only have a 5600xt. Do meet the CPU requirements with a 3600xt but not enough GPU.

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    1. Power wise you are OK but you may run into a VRAM limitation with only 6 GB ….. The only difference between a 5600XT and a 5700 non-XT is the amount of memory and the bus width of 192 vs 256 although I wouldn’t worry about the bus width at that power level the main drawback to 192 is it only support 6 GB or 12 GB vs 8/16 GB

      It’s like a 5% difference which in reality is 60 FPS vs 63 FPS *if* you don’t run out of VRAM

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  11. Most boring game I have ever seen.

    The characters and animations are horrendous. The game is all over place and has no direction. All of the gameplay is ship managing, some lame generic FPS shooting and traveling to a gazillion planets that are probably AI generated.

    Maybe some Eve Online players are interested in this who want to fly spaceships and micromanage a planet base. But 99% of gamers are not interested in this, it’s a complete niche game.

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    1. wtf you talking about dude the animations are much better than previous bethesda games and the direction is nasapunk to an autistic level.

      “Maybe some Eve Online players are interested in this who want to fly spaceships and micromanage a planet base.”

      some of us like sci not medieval fantasy rpgs. Fck us i guess.

      So what about spacebourne 2 does that suck as well? Everspace 2?

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      1. No you’re right, there’s an audience for these games.

        But it’s relatively niche. I don’t see how this will help Xbox pull itself out of the abyss it finds itself in.

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        1. perhaps by doing different things? I dont know, we will see if this changes things and makes sci fi games more popular.

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  12. Seems Bethesda doesn’t know what AMD GPUs to compare to Nvidia’s.

    5700 curve stomps 1070 Ti, 6800 XT anihilates 2080 even harder.

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    2. *curb. 5700 and the 1070 ti aren’t that far apart. But yeah, no contest between the 6800 xt and the 2080. I think they meant a 3080 perhaps?

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        1. I was going by Techpowerup’s gpu database which lists the 5700 as only 9% faster than the 1070 ti.

          Looking over at Tomshardware’s hierarchy chart puts the gap at 25% though, so I guess it comes down to how you tests the cards.

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    3. Chances are, all workstations at bethesda run nvidia. Thats why. I cant wait for AMD to get FSR3 out… it will destroy DLSS3 lol

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    1. Well you basically have a nerfed 3700 for a CPU and graphics just a little better than a 5700XT and that’s never really been enough power for 4K/60FPS

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      1. Yup. Consoles need to upgrade already. 10TFlops was nice in 2015. Let’s remember everyone spits on the 4060Ti… but its double the power of the Xbox/PS5 lol… you think you can play Starfield at max graphics at 60 fps at 4K with something that has half the power of the 4060Ti? Aint gonna happen

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      2. Yup. Consoles need to upgrade already. 10TFlops was nice in 2015. Let’s remember everyone spits on the 4060Ti… but its double the power of the Xbox/PS5 lol… you think you can play Starfield at max graphics at 60 fps at 4K with something that has half the power of the 4060Ti? Aint gonna happen.

        Microsoft/Sony should put their big boys pants on and tell AMD, get your FSR3 with frame generation out already and give us an APU that does 20+ Tflops right now so we can release a PS5 Pro and an Xbox Series S Pro or something.

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        1. Good lord, you are clueless thinking the 4060 TI is double the performance of the GPU in a PS5 or Xbox series x. Those consoles have around 2080 super levels of graphics power and the 4060 TI is only a tiny bit faster than that so stop talking out of your rear end.

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    4. Well you basically have a nerfed 3700 for a CPU and graphics just a little better than a 5700XT and that’s never really been enough power for 4K/60FPS

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    5. Price of upscaled 4K on consoles because TV manufacturers started pushing that instead of 1440P. so it became a marketing trap.

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  18. Over-sold, over-promised, over-hyped hot garbage from Bethesda and Howard. Some things, never change.

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  19. That’s confusing! In the recommended section they have put 6800xt, 2080 together but 6800xt is about 50% faster than a 2080?

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  21. SSD required ? And if I use a fast hard disc, then what? Game will trash my hard disc? Anyway how much is a great 10 TB SSD, 10 times more costly than a fast hard disc, I bet.

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  23. A lot of microlags and a bit robotic humanoid animations to correct…
    Sigh, also Bethesda abandoned Italian dubbing in their games 🙁

    Skin looks still “gummy” to me.

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  25. I am confused… whatever happened to consoles doing that checkerboard upscaling? releasing games in 2023 at 30fps is embarrassing. Glad I will be playing this on pc

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