Starfield had it's grand coming out party this week, more and more details have been revealed about the game in the time since including the PC requirements.
Starfield was blown wide open by Bethesda at the Xbox Games Showcase, and now we know almost everything the game has to offer. Things like, ship and weapon customisation, tonnes of different planets each with their own ecosystems, gravity and batch of little freak creatures, all wrapped up in those classic Bethesda RPG traits we know and love – including the ability to hoard hundreds of the same item for comedic effect.
Now that the Starfield pre-orders and Constellation Edition pre-orders are available, you should probably start looking at making sure your PC can actually run it. Thankfully we have you covered on that front with all of the necessary info below.
Starfield System Requirements
The following are the minimum system requirements to play Starfield as set out on the Steam store page for the game
- Minimum required OS: Windows 10 version 22H2 (10.0.19045)
- Minimum processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X, Intel Core i7-6800K
- Minimum amount of memory: 16 GB RAM
- Minimum graphics card: AMD Radeon RX 5700, NVIDIA GeForce 1070 Ti
- DirectX: Version 12
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Minimum required storage: 125 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD Required
These minimum specs don't have a description attached to them, but if we had to guess this would be the specs required to run the game at low settings while still hitting a decent frame rate.
Recommended specs
The following are the recommended system requirements to play Starfield as set out on the Steam store page for the game
- Recommended OS: Windows 10/11 with updates
- Recommended processor: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, Intel i5-10600K
- Recommended amount of memory: 16 GB RAM
- Recommended graphics card: AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
- DirectX: Version 12
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Minimum required storage: 125 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD Required
Like the minimum specs, the recommended specs don't have a description attached to them, but if we had to guess this would be the specs required to run the game at medium settings at 30fps considering the Xbox Series X version is set to run at 30fps. You'll likely have to own a beefier machine to run the game at a full 60fps.
Obviously, we're still a few months out from launch so these could change, or – as we've seen many times before – the PC version could end up poorly optimised, so don't take these as gospel just yet.
