Starfield is just around the corner, and Bethesda has revealed a global release date, along with minimum and recommended PC specs, ahead of its Early Access release date on Friday, September 1st.
Bethesda Game Studios shared the details on their blog. It gives an important detail to those of us who still live in the “old neighborhood” called Earth. First, we shared the timing of the release for those who access Starfield through Early Access.
If you pre-ordered or purchased the Premium Edition, Premium Edition Upgrade, or Constellation Edition, you can fly far beyond on September 1st (or sooner). If you have the regular version, you’ll have to wait until September 6th.
See image below for full worldwide release times. However, users in the Eastern and Pacific time zones will be able to play Starfield on August 31st at 5:00 PM PT/8:00 PM ET. This translates to 1:00 AM BST/10:00 AM AEST on September 1st.
starfield pc specs
Regarding Starfield’s PC specs, both the minimum and recommended options require an SSD, with 125 GB of free space. Check out Starfield’s minimum and recommended specs below.
minimum:
- OS: Windows 10 version 21H1 (10.0.19043)
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X, Intel Core i7-6800K
- memory: 16GB RAM
- graphic: AMD Radeon RX 5700, NVIDIA GeForce 1070 Ti
- Direct X: version 12
- storage: 125GB free space
- Other notes: SSD required
Recommendation:
- OS: Windows 10/11 updated
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, Intel i5-10600K
- memory: 16GB RAM
- graphic: AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
- Direct X: version 12
- Communication network: broadband internet connection
- storage: 125GB free space
- Other notes: SSD required
We don’t know the exact performance on PC, but Bethesda’s Todd Howard previously confirmed that Starfield runs at 4K and 30 FPS on Xbox Series X and 1440p and 30 FPS on Xbox Series S. The decision to lock the game to 30 FPS is to ensure “consistency” in performance.
For more details, see a preview of Starfield’s opening mission, Bethesda’s Pete Hines’ comment on how Starfield “doesn’t even really start moving” until players complete the main quest, and Starfield Check out everything else we know about.
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