Starfield

[Harrison]

Here is one of the few honest reviews about this game.

https://www.eurogamer.net/starfield-...SwynSNbylEl78k

Most reviews just praise it, but this one really digs into what's not so great.

They highlight how bad maps are, and as you mentioned the complete lack of city maps. So many times it's so easy to get lost. You end you just following marker points. And the planets are barren, with the planet maps being some of the most boring I've ever seen with just landing markers. Elite got planet maps right over 30 years ago so there is no excuse there.

But the review hit the nail on the head about one big thing that is missing. Exploration. You can just fast travel everywhere. Unless you are on a planet then you have to run everywhere in each location. No mounts. The one thing that was epic about games like Skyrim was walking through the landscape exploring massive vistas and discovering things. You can't explore in Starfield, which is mad when you consider how big the game is.

Have you tried building your own ship yet?

As I mentioned above I've still been using the first ship, just upgraded a bit. I can afford a better one now and will be devoting some time to exploring different ships when I get more time next week, but so far in the game it hasn't really motivated me to beyond curiosity.

[Demon Cleaner]

Have you tried building your own ship yet?

I'm not really into that kind of customization, feels just like a waste of time when there are tons of other things to do.

Just installed 2 mods, one that improves the inventory UI a lot, I always hate f.ex. when I don't see how much of an item I already have in stock, so I know if I need to buy more or not. This mod is highly customizable and you can chose between around 30 different stats you want to see in your inventory.

Also installed a mod that completely skips the docking and landing animations as they get boring with the time.

[Harrison]

I've just read the following review and think this sums up the game really well.

https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/sta...ftihnwQSWYv5so

[Kin Hell]

I gotta download this from somewhere & check out the FPS rates on my rig.

I hear it's a proper Hardware killer.

[Harrison]

No need to worry about framerates mate. It was designed to run at a silky smooth 30fps. No need for anything more.

[Kin Hell]

No need to worry about framerates mate. It was designed to run at a silky smooth 30fps. No need for anything more.

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PC Gamer also reports that if you own an RTX 30-Series GPU, you may need to update the firmware. If you already own an RTX 40-Series GPU or a motherboard that supports Resizable BAR, you should be good to go.

Then you must download the Nvidia Profile Inspector and make the following changes:



Select Starfield in the profile drop menu
Navigate to section 5
Set the rBAR feature to enabled
Set the rBAR options to 0x00000001 (Battlefield V, Returnal etc)
Set the rBAR size limit to 0x0000000040000000 (Battlefield V, F1 2022, etc)
Hit Apply Changes at the top right

From here:

https://www.gamingbible.com/news/sta...08446-20230912

nVidia respond.....

https://www.pcgamer.com/nvidia-drive...rmance%20notes.

This is what happens when left to Consolers to screw it all up.

The COD series got properly consoled up during it's demonic & demised progression/regression so I guess it was only natural for them to shaft this game from the beginning....

[Demon Cleaner]

Interesting, I just checked and I have driver 537.42 installed, which is the latest. But I didn't play Starfield for over 2 weeks now, waiting for some major update, there was a minor one 5 days ago though.

Regarding performance, it always ran quite well for me so far, could not complain, will have to see what the new nVidia driver really changes.