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TL;DR:
Minimum Specs:
- OS: Windows 10 version 21H1 (10.0.19043)
- 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
- Storage: 125 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD Required
Recommended Specs:
- 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
I will say once more. Do not preorder video games. It could be shit, it could be buggy, but what it won’t do is run out of copies. Wait until the reviews are out, or even a bit after it launches if you can. If you’re anything like me you have hundreds of games you haven’t played yet so what’s an hour or a day in the grand scheme of things.
It’s a Bethesda game. It wouldn’t feel right if it were bug-free.
It wouldn’t feel right if it didn’t have the exact same bugs as the last 4 Bethesda releases.
If anything is moving backwards through the air, you know it was bolted on to code for Skyrim’s dragons
The reviews have mentioned it does actually have an enemy that is this games dragon lol
It’s also on Gamepass. You can play it instantly for a much lower cost to make sure it works. Then buy it if you still want later when it goes on sale.
Doesn’t work on linux
Duh, the reason there’s Game Pass on PC is for people to stay on Windows. Microsoft saw the writing on the wall when Valve released SteamOS and scrambled for a way to keep people on Windows.
And it’s working for me (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
Send help.
We need a LSW to run the Windows store on Linux as a pacakge manager
No, MS wanted to compete with PlayStation Plus. Linux constitutes about 2% of users on steam. MS doesn’t care about Linux gaming and steam OS is no where choose to being a threat to them.
Linux isn’t officially supported anyway. That’s like saying it doesn’t work on PlatStation…
They’ve applied for steamdeck verification
Not through gamepass.
I love my Steamdeck, it’s great. But ultimately, most games aren’t originally designed to be played on there…
I was burned too bad with Cyberpunk 2077 that even though Starfield seems to be all right, I’m waiting until after reviews come out before I pick up a copy. That just means I wait a few more days to reduce the risk of more pain.
Cyberpunk also seemed alright, even the reviews were glowing. Well, we all know how that turned out
I agree completely and would like to add especially if it’s a Bethesda game. I can still remember waiting for half a year for Skyrim to be playable on PS3 after buying it on launch day.
REMEMBER: NO PRE-ORDERS. Safest bet is to wait a year after any Bethesda release to give modders enough time to fix the game.
The earlier you buy the buggier the next release is.
Or pirate it until they fix it, that’s my plan
Lol stealing a game with the intent to pay for it later?
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Alpha Centauri +4.37LY
Man, this is some BULLSHIT. Why do the Alpha Centaurians have to wait so long?
Stupid speed of causality.
We still haven’t established whether some form of warp drive is doable or not. Even if you can’t move faster than light, if you can distort spacetime around yourself sufficiently in the right way, you can maybe get a functionally-similar effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
The Alcubierre drive ([alkuˈβjere]) is a speculative warp drive idea according to which a spacecraft could achieve apparent faster-than-light travel by contracting space in front of it and expanding space behind it, under the assumption that a configurable energy-density field lower than that of vacuum (that is, negative mass) could be created.[1][2] Proposed by theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre in 1994, the Alcubierre drive is based on a solution of Einstein’s field equations. Since those solutions are metric tensors, the Alcubierre drive is also referred to as Alcubierre metric.
Objects cannot accelerate to the speed of light within normal spacetime; instead, the Alcubierre drive shifts space around an object so that the object would arrive at its destination more quickly than light would in normal space without breaking any physical laws.[3]
I love PBS Space-time
That’s the problem though. While antimatter exists, which has negative mass, it exists only in small amounts, and you’d have to have a massive amount of it to accomplish such a feat. We’d need to find a way to create it.
And don’t get me started on the other problematic aspects of it, like space debris.
A LY isn’t a unit of time…
Sure it is, hence why it’s called a lightYEAR. It’s the time that a year passes for one light.
I am disappointed that some people don’t seem to get this joke.
Ohhh, so that’s why he was called Buzz Lightyear!
Time doesn’t pass for light, though.
All I hear is that it’ll take one hell of a bird.
And a parsec isn’t a unit of distance but that didn’t stop Han Solo from completing the Kessel run in fewer than 12.
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BGS telling us how they really feel 😔
It’s finally happened … my 1070 is finally below minimum requirements for a game I want to play. Guess this will be an Xbox only game for me because I am not paying the insane prices for GPUs.
GPUs are at pretty reasonable prices if you buy used. The 3060 Ti is $237 and it beats the 4060.
Depends on where. In my country there are assholes that still want the equivalent of 300USD for a 2080ti.
That’s assuming I have $237 laying around to play a game id also need to spend $70 on.
Same, for the GPU that is. I don’t have or want an Xbox so I guess I won’t be playing it for a long time. Not that I ever play Bethesda games at launch anyway.
I run most of my gaming through GeForce No Can’t afford to replace my 1070 and streaming the games seem to work fine for now.
Don’t own an Xbox or PC, I’m going to wait until they decide milking money out of an old game > exclusivity and play with the future GOTY edition on a smart refrigerator or a Playdate or whatever other weird platform they repackage it for.
You reminded me it’s not on PS5. The PC my partner (who might be interested in this) plays on can’t handle this. So…guess we won’t play it. Oh well.
Is it still 30 fps on Series X? I don’t think that’s acceptable for a first-person game in 2023.
You say that, but Immortals of Aveum probably would have benefited immensely from a 30 FPS option.
Even more from a 40FPS option.
I didn’t follow this game. Can you explain why a lower frame rate is desirable here? Is it just too demanding to run at 60+?
It is the first shipping UE5 game that uses both Nanite and Lumen, and with insanely detailed environments to boot. It holds a pretty stable 60 FPS on the PS5, but it runs at 720p internally and upscales to 4k using FSR2, resulting in some very questionable image quality.
I think these features are insanely cool and their commitment to supporting 60 FPS is commendable, but this really is a case where I would actually prefer 30 or 40 FPS with better visuals.
It’s 720p on PS5 then upscaled. It runs ok at 60FPS. But the Res is simply too low for me
It’s not going to get better unless companies start making consoles with 1-2 year life cycles (which won’t sell, because at that point, you may as well be swapping parts out of your PC of Theseus).
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You really believe that? Have you played New Vegas at 30 and 60 fps? Go ahead and try it out. I’ll wait.
Ssd required?
SSD has been a best practice requirement for a long ass time anyway. SSDs are cheap now.
I just bought an 8TB chonker last week for $340. It comfortably fit my Steam library of 19 years with room to spare.
A year ago this same drive was still averaging ~$650-$700.
In case someone’s wondering about cheaper options; Samsung 980 500GB NVMe M.2 costs as much as £32 GBP (~40 USD), and 1 TB version is £52 GBP (~65 USD).
It shouldn’t be a surprise. Games load assets on the fly to save memory, which would be terrible on a hard drive.
Not great for an SSD either since they have finite read/writes too.
Solid State Drives have no read limits, only write limits.
Same difference.
No it’s not the same. Playing games, or loading assets causes no wear for the SSD.
Well that’s just not factually accurate. The accurate thing would be it causes so little wear and tear it might as well not count. But using ANYTHING causes wear and tear to build up eventually.
Nonsense. NAND flash memory is non-volatile and can be read from indefinitely without wearing out.
Lemmy allows you to embed objects in posts?
These should show up as images, I’m not sure what app you’re using.
Sync for Lemmy. They show up as images in the post, but on the preview it looks like I shared. Weird.
Just a guess, so I could be completely wrong. But I imagine Sync doesn’t run text from the post feed through a markdown parser/renderer. It only does that when viewing the full post. At least that’s the reason why we have a similar result in Thunder for lemmy.
Sync has some issues displaying images embedded into post bodies. I still have Jerboa installed for if I need to view or make posts with them.
I believe yes, it should act like something you just did, embedding image in comment
how do you know that Todd Howard lied? he opened his mouth.
SSD Required? Wat
Yes. Now that all the consoles have ssds, devs are going to design their games around them. That means asset streaming is the norm. And that means hdds will cause massive pop-in and stutters.
Honestly if you don’t have an SSD save 50$ and get one. Especially for crappier pcs it’s the most significant upgrade you can do and not even for gaming. 10 years ago SSDs were somewhat niche. They were expensive as well. Now I won’t even touch a computer without one basically.
It is not at all sustainable to game on HDDs anymore. They are still good for slow cold storage, though.
It wasn’t sustainable 5 years ago.
It’s probably not 100% necessary; even Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (which was designed to use the PS5’s fast loading speeds to switch between worlds on the fly, and supports the latest DirectStorage implementation on PC) can be played off a hard drive, tests have shown. But any PC recent enough to play Starfield on really should have an SSD.