I have a 5 year old Alienware laptop that I use for the occasional PC gaming.
The graphics were horrendous. I found the problem was related to how Starfield generates the settings. It didn't correctly determine the performance of the machine.
I set everything to Medium, switched off film grain/motion blur, then played with draw distance until I got quality screen and good performance.
> Starfield seems kinda dull?
Not going to lie, the first 3 hours were painful for me. So much so I was planning to give up on it. The game does open up, and when it does... wow.
I think I have around 50 hours of gameplay and I've barely scratched it.
I have ~25 hours and I'm bored to tears. I've unlocked the first couple of powers, finished a few corp quest chains, but nothing about the game has grabbed me, and I have similar complaints as the GP: it's dull, the universe feels huge but flat, empty, and pointless.
I'm full of regret both that this is the most expensive game I've ever bought, plus that I upgraded my GPU just to play it.
I really want to love Starfield, and based on comments like yours I keep feeling like somehow I'm missing something. Should I keep playing? Does it get better, or do we just have vastly different tastes?
That sucks. I'm about 20 hours in (almost completely sidequests, I think I'm still in the second main storyline quest) and loving it, but that's how I've always played Bethesda games. I go and make my own fun as soon as possible.
Not every game's for everyone though, and a good rule is to wait a month or so on single player games so you can see what reviewers who align with your taste think.
I have a 5 year old Alienware laptop that I use for the occasional PC gaming.
The graphics were horrendous. I found the problem was related to how Starfield generates the settings. It didn't correctly determine the performance of the machine.
I set everything to Medium, switched off film grain/motion blur, then played with draw distance until I got quality screen and good performance.
> Starfield seems kinda dull?
Not going to lie, the first 3 hours were painful for me. So much so I was planning to give up on it. The game does open up, and when it does... wow.
I think I have around 50 hours of gameplay and I've barely scratched it.