This is the only game that I have to upscale from 2560x1440 to 4k despite having a 3080 in a brand new high end Ryzen 9 rig, just to get a mere 70-80 fps. 1440p is not even close to enough pixels for my 43" monitor, but wait it gets worse: to achieve this framerate I also have to set an FSR2 render scale of 75% which effectively upscales the game a 2nd time. The old game engine isn't efficient enough to run at 100% render scale. It looks so crud it feels like I'm playing Fallout 3 or worse. And what's with this extremely low contrast filter that removes the shadow depth? I've had to add a geforce experience filter to improve that but you still can't get the shadows back to black without making the overall image a little darker than it should be. Zero optimisation was done, no FOV slider added, changing video resolution has to be done by changing the desktop resolution, but they did have time to add a 3rd gender pronoun at character creation? Bethesda need to get their priorities straight.

The fact that you can't select a resolution in the game's settings means you cannot upscale a lower resolution that performs well enough to a size that is smaller than the full monitor size: it will always use all of it, so the low res ends up enlarged way too much, degrading image quality. You can't not upscale either because FSR2 on its own even at 50% render scale doesn't offer enough fps.

Cyberpunk outperforms Starfield by a country mile and looks way better doing it. Even Dead Space remake greatly outperforms it, and that game is known for bad performance on PC.

My companion robot keeps getting in my way and getting stuck and speaks so slowly I'm already sick of him. I'm also disappointed that you cannot actually travel through space, only fast travel so just like in Skyrim you select a fast travel point on a map, except the map now isn't fantasy style it's made to resemble a space backdrop. In Skyrim though you can actually travel to each location without fast travel, whereas in Starfield you cannot. So there is no sense of space. I also don't like gathering junk and resources for crafting and research. They carried that crap over from FO4 as if we haven't seen enough of that already in every single ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game since Minecraft.

Todd is a liar and when he's not straight up lying he's usually lying by omission and redirection. His job is to sell you on the game and that's what he does best. Used car salesmen are more honest than he is.

I don't see why you should play this over Fallout / Skyrim because it's the same talking to NPCs and having them as companions thing with various quest storylines except this time it's worse, you have a spaceship for a horse that you can't actually travel on. If you love Bethesda games and you've already played all the previous ones to death then maybe.. but you should wait 3 entire videocard generations and if by then you're really still interested you can pick it up on sale for next to nothing.

This is the only game that I have to upscale from 2560x1440 to 4k despite having a 3080 in a brand new high end Ryzen 9 rig, just to get a mere 70-80 fps. 1440p is not even close to enough pixels for my 43" monitor, but wait it gets worse: to achieve this framerate I also have to set an FSR2 render scale of 75% which effectively upscales the game a 2nd time. The old game engine isn't efficient enough to run at 100% render scale. It looks so crud it feels like I'm playing Fallout 3 or worse. And what's with this extremely low contrast filter that removes the shadow depth? I've had to add a geforce experience filter to improve that but you still can't get the shadows back to black without making the overall image a little darker than it should be. Zero optimisation was done, no FOV slider added, changing video resolution has to be done by changing the desktop resolution, but they did have time to add a 3rd gender pronoun at character creation? Bethesda need to get their priorities straight. The fact that you can't select a resolution in the game's settings means you cannot upscale a lower resolution that performs well enough to a size that is smaller than the full monitor size: it will always use all of it, so the low res ends up enlarged way too much, degrading image quality. You can't not upscale either because FSR2 on its own even at 50% render scale doesn't offer enough fps. Cyberpunk outperforms Starfield by a country mile and looks way better doing it. Even Dead Space remake greatly outperforms it, and that game is known for bad performance on PC. My companion robot keeps getting in my way and getting stuck and speaks so slowly I'm already sick of him. I'm also disappointed that you cannot actually travel through space, only fast travel so just like in Skyrim you select a fast travel point on a map, except the map now isn't fantasy style it's made to resemble a space backdrop. In Skyrim though you can actually travel to each location without fast travel, whereas in Starfield you cannot. So there is no sense of space. I also don't like gathering junk and resources for crafting and research. They carried that crap over from FO4 as if we haven't seen enough of that already in every single goddamn game since Minecraft. Todd is a liar and when he's not straight up lying he's usually lying by omission and redirection. His job is to sell you on the game and that's what he does best. Used car salesmen are more honest than he is. I don't see why you should play this over Fallout / Skyrim because it's the same talking to NPCs and having them as companions thing with various quest storylines except this time it's worse, you have a spaceship for a horse that you can't actually travel on. If you love Bethesda games and you've already played all the previous ones to death then maybe.. but you should wait 3 entire videocard generations and if by then you're really still interested you can pick it up on sale for next to nothing.