Starfields is one of the biggest games of 2023 – but it’s joined other recent games like Baldurs Gate 3 in being boycotted by conservatives because of the way it interacts with gender.

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    1 year ago

    I’m boycotting it because I’m not a fan of 16-28 FPS and I don’t have a $5000 PC to actually run it.

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      Weirdly, the worst frame drops are in the cut scenes.

      When you’re in New Atlantis, taking mass transit anywhere, the train pulls out of the station at a good 5-10 fps.

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        It’s because the cut scenes are also loading screens so they actually have a lot going on. I’ve been playing on xbox series x and it runs as well as you’d expect on a console, so not really complaining there. I’m having fun at least, j7st need to keep away from all the negativity surrounding the game.

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          You would think that, for a static loading screen, that’s the same every time, it would just be a video clip and not generated live, in engine.

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      1 year ago

      I’m easily running it on a 2 year old 1200€ laptop.

      A desktop that can run it would be closer to 800€

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        Mine is about 5 years old with a ryzen 5/ GTX 2080 and a hard drive that spins. I’ll upgrade it at some point, but not to play one game. No Man’s Sky works quite well on my rig.