Is your PC ready for Starfield? The game’s PC system requirements are here!
Here’s the hardware you’ll need to run Starfield on PC
Microsoft and Bethesda Softworks have revealed Starfield’s release date, confirming that the game will be launching on both PC and Xbox Series consoles on September 6th. Additionally, Starfield’s PC system requirements have been revealed through Steam, letting PC gamers know what hardware they will need to run the game at launch.
Starfield is launching on PC though the Microsoft Store and Steam. On day-1, Starfield will also be available through PC Game Pass, Microsoft’s PC gaming subscription service.
Sadly, these system requirements do not reveal the framerate, settings, and resolutions that these new system requirements target, but they do confirm that Starfield will be a DirectX 12 game on PC, and that the game will require SSD storage.Â
On PC, Starfield’s storage requirements are on the high side, with the game’s PC system requirements asking for 125GB of available SSD space. Additionally, both the game’s minimum and recommended system requirements ask for 16GB of system memory, and both the game’s minimum and recommended system requirements list 8GB graphics cards.
CPU-wise, Starfield’s CPU requirements are not overly high, with AMD’s Ryzen 5 2600X and Intel’s i7-6800K being the game’s minimum processors. On the recommended side we have AMD’s newer Ryzen 5 3600X, and Intel’s i5-10600K. All of these CPUs are 6-core processors, which means that this game is not expected to run well on older quad-core CPUs and run very well on modern 8+ core CPUs.
At a minimum, PC gamers are expected to have graphics cards that are equal to or better than AMD’s Radeon RX 5700 and Nvidia’s GTX 1070 Ti graphics cards. Both of these GPUs are 8GB graphics cards. To play Starfield optimally, AMD’s Radeon RX 6800 XT is recommended, as is Nvidia’s RTX 2080. Nvidia’s RTX 2080 is an 8GB graphics card, suggesting that 8GB GPUs will be able to run Starfield without any major issues.Â
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
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