I am about to finish Starfield. I did not enjoy my time with it. Luckily, I played it on gamepass, so very little monetary value was lost.
Might revisit once creation kit is up. That was the only way Fallout 4 was enjoyable for me.
I will head back to finishing my bg3 evil play through, filling the gaps with Darktide.
That really only makes this world even weirder. Why AREN'T these ships just glassing planets?!
I could forgive bethesda games because I used to be able to look at them as "greater than the sum of its parts"
Fallout 4 with mods just barely got away with it.
Starfield has too many issues for me.
The biggest one, your second issue of loading screens, I don't think mods can fix. There just will never be a seamless overworld because of the spaceship mechanic.
PCIE scaling is in low single digit percentages, so it isn't an issue unless you are min/maxing.
Gamers nexus and hardware unboxed did gpu reviews for starfield. Do NOT get a 6700 xt or 6750xt like someone suggested.
You need a 6800 xt for stable 60 fps.
But you are worried about electricity cost, the rdna2 and rdna3 series is VERY inefficient (stock).
You can pay upfront for a more efficient 4070 ti/4080, or maybe pay more per lifetime with rdna 2/3.
As for the rest, you don't wana hear it but... your rig is old my dude.
You could probably reuse the ram if you went intel.
Psus have a finite lifetime. Make sure to put money aside for when it dies.
What case do you have? Gpus have gotten BIG.
Where do you live? Microcenter has great deals right now for last gen stuff.
Edit: What resolution is your monitor? The lower the resolution, the more important the cpu is due to bottlenecking in modern games.
@iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee
Edit2: hardware unboxed JUST did a video on starfield's cpu limit. Definitely check that out.
The internet is a vast place, maybe someone would be in your area. If you were in illinois, I would have offered to fix your computer for free, because I thought beehaw community was supposed to be nice.
Apparently fucking not.
I'm not sure why it being physical makes a difference in asking for help, but okay.
Why not mention the computer issues here? You might have found someone wiling to fix it for free.
Mhgu also let you be a palico.
The game was better than it had any right to be, and it really deserved to be a franchise.
Gottem
But bg3 black hounds wasn't Larian. That was Blackisle and it got canceled. It wasn't the same game or the same studio.