***The Official Starfield Thread*** (As endorsed by TNA)

[Nasher]

Absolutely agree.

The fact is Starfield is not really a space game. It is a shooter / RPG with a space aesthetic. The game it is most similar to is the Mass Effect series (although Starfield isn't as good as Mass Effect).

Mass Effect is a linear game though.

I think they made a mistake sticking to their ancient engine with this game and not licencing a modern one. It works for Elder Scrolls but Starfield needed something more advanced. No seamless space/planet flight or ground vehicles is an engine limitation

 

[TNA]

I’ll end up putting far more hours into this than ME.

Exactly. What made ME good was the story. Other than that I prefer Starfield in every other way.

I have barely started the story in Starfield anyway. Too busy exploring and doing side quests.

 

[mid_gen]

I can't seem to part with the starting one - I'm such a sentimental old git

Mine is still the starting ship.....although it should be renamed Theseus at this point There are no original parts left.

 

[HungryHippos]

We moan about textures for a reason When the performance is so demanding yet the visual presentation doesn't match that demand, questions need to be asked, not ignored

Yeah this pretty much sums up my thoughts as well.

I'll burn more power for better visuals when it matters, but if I'm maxing the card out and the visuals are poor, I don't see the value in it.

I pay a disgusting amount where I live, IIRC 32 or 36p kw/h, I easily play 6 hours EVERY evening and this system was only built recently just for gaming, so I like to get my moneys worth...

SVR in the UK should be £0.30/kWh now, are you on a higher fix?

I make a nod to this as I said and do pay attention to how much power my GPU is using.

Some games like Cyberpunk and recently completed Ratchet and Clank, I will run with maxed visuals and eat the higher consumption values.

Others like BG3, which is just an RPG, don't warrant it, and instead my usage on that is more like 100W vs 350W on the above.

Beyond all of this my PSU is a Seasonic titanium, did cost a bit more but I think in the long term this also saves energy as it's more efficient.

 

[Felon]

I think they made a mistake sticking to their ancient engine with this game and not licencing an up to date one. Cry engine, unreal, cobra engine Frontier's used for Elite) can all do seamless stuff and support ground vehicles etc. With nice looking scenery.

I do have to agree..

There's lots of detail and depth to the areas and locations in Starfield, but it just does look a bit ropey.. It has that look of FO3/FO4, it doesn't look modern. You only have to look at games like Satisfactory running in UE5 - to see just how great things can look whilst being enormous.

 

[Removed User 345456]

Yeah this pretty much sums up my thoughts as well.

I'll burn more power for better visuals when it matters, but if I'm maxing the card out and the visuals are poor, I don't see the value in it.



SVR in the UK should be £0.30/kWh now, are you on a higher fix?

I make a nod to this as I said and do pay attention to how much power my GPU is using.

Some games like Cyberpunk and recently completed Ratchet and Clank, I will run with maxed visuals and eat the higher consumption values.

Others like BG3, which is just an RPG, don't warrant it, and instead my usage on that is more like 100W vs 350W on the above.

Beyond all of this my PSU is a Seasonic titanium, did cost a bit more but I think in the long term this also saves energy as it's more efficient.

Yeah some rip off fixed crap mate. Stuck with it till next year or longer iirc.

I do love how any game 1440p maxed settings natively uses 105-125w or 135-145w with my undervolt/underclock (which is still around the stock nvidia clocks as my 4070 boosts higher stock than a ref card, thanks asus) and as I say my entire system + amp/speakers + monitor is only 260-300w at the wall... Not bad right!

My PSU is an NZXT 850w fully modular 80+ Gold with a silent operation mode (enabled)

 

[TNA]

I am on Octopus Tracker. 18.10p kWh today and generally hovers around that

Will probably get a lot more expensive as weather gets colder. But I will stick with it. Will only be painful for a few months.

 

[mrk]

Jst funnel the GPU exhaust into open air in your room, heating problem solved in winter.

 

[HungryHippos]

Jst funnel the GPU exhaust into open air in your room, heating problem solved in winter.

All heat will have to escape the chassis anyway and winds up in the room, it does solve a little bit of the heating problem in Winter

Not a terrible way of warming up the office room.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

If you're on a station like The Key, then you have immediate access to technicians, weapons and bits and bobs traders you can basically sell your stuff to. Sell like for like to relevant traders for the most credits.

I'm not on The Key yet, I don't think. I've just completed a few of the main missions so the place I'm going back to most is New Atlantis.

Does anyone know how to remove weapons from favourites? I've got to be missing something here - I even dropped them and after picking them back up they were back in the favourite menu!

 

[Removed User 345456]

I am on Octopus Tracker. 18.10p kWh today and generally hovers around that

Will probably get a lot more expensive as weather gets colder. But I will stick with it. Will only be painful for a few months.

SWINE!

 

[Deleted User 234324]

Be interesting to see what FPS you get at 1440p with RT on in RE4 Remake natively maxed out.

Just downloading it now on steam, see how it is. I'll even plug the kilowatt meter in to get power use at the socket.

 

[mrk]

I'm not on The Key yet, I don't think. I've just completed a few of the main missions so the place I'm going back to most is New Atlantis.

Does anyone know how to remove weapons from favourites? I've got to be missing something here - I even dropped them and after picking them back up they were back in the favourite menu!

Not found a way to remove weapons, you can simply replace them!

 

[Removed User 345456]

Just downloading it now on steam, see how it is. I'll even plug the kilowatt meter in to get power use at the socket.

That's literally what I did on all my games/entire system including monitor/speakers/amp to quote the aforementioned performance per wattage/silence/temps this build was made for. FWIW I only have a 5700x btw, running in eco 65w mode...

 

[HungryHippos]

SWINE!

Kind of off-topic but having had solar for a year, I've been obsessed with the data it spits out and how it fits in with power bills and such, so I get it

I am on Octopus Go which is £0.095 per kWh 00:30 - 04:30 and around £0.30 per kWh at all other times, I can force charge 8.2 kWh battery in winter which covers about half my typical daily usage.

Stats for nerds here for my entire years worth of utility data: https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...ction-figures.18965743/page-241#post-36624491

Post #4811 if you have different paging size to me.

 

[TNA]

Jst funnel the GPU exhaust into open air in your room, heating problem solved in winter.

That may work for you but I don't live alone and have to heat the house for my family

 

[Deleted User 234324]

That's literally what I did on all my games/entire system including monitor/speakers/amp to quote the aforementioned performance per wattage/silence/temps this build was made for. FWIW I only have a 5700x btw, running in eco 65w mode...

5700X is around about 70% faster than my 2700X in Starfield with the same GPU.

 

[HungryHippos]

That may work for you but I don't live alone and have to heat the house for my family

Run exhaust tubing around your entire house!

 

[TNA]

Run exhaust tubing around your entire house!

My 3080 Ti seems to hover around 260-280w last I checked in this game. Generally speaking I keep it below 300w in most games. No chance of even keeping the temp steady in a whole house, let alone heat it in winter

 

[MOOGLEYS]

Can you mod the Windows/Xbox store version or is it only the steam version that you can mod ?