Starfield PC specs are modest, but it’s another 100GB+ game

Bethesda continues to reveal more and more about star field. It all started, of course, with a 45-minute deep-dive into the game that followed Xbox Showcase, and the developer has been sharing more and more tidbits ever since.

Those of us who are going to be playing the game on PC shouldn’t have to worry about the 30fps lock, but you’ll need a lot of disk space for it.

the star field steam page has been updated with two sets of requirements for the PC version of the game. Now, the Steam system specs tend to change between the update and the release of the game. Considering Bethesda has yet to post a detailed blog on those requirements, they may not be met when it launches.

All of that said, the minimum and recommended specs for Starfield seem very reasonable… until you scroll down to the space requirement. For both, Starfield requests 125GB of your precious drive space, and both require an SSD (which isn’t a surprise in itself).

Starfield is just the latest game to join the 100+ GB club on PC. This year alone, we’ve seen Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Forspoken, The Last of Us Part 1, just to name a few. Unfortunately, none of them come with any kind of frame rate/resolution target (although we hope none of them will be for 30fps). Read below for the full sets of specs.

Starfield Minimum PC Specs

• OS: Windows 10 version 22H2 (10.0.19045).
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X, Intel Core i7-6800K.
• GPUs: AMD Radeon RX 5700, Nvidia GeForce 1070 Ti.
• RAM: 16 GB.
• Storage: 125 GB of available space (SSD required).
• DirextX: Version 12.
• Grid: Broadband Internet connection.

Starfield Recommended PC Specs

• OS: Windows 10/11 with updates.
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, Intel i5-10600K.
• GPUs: AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080.
• RAM: 16 GB.
• Storage: 125 GB of available space (SSD required).
• DirextX: Version 12.
• Grid: Broadband Internet connection.

Interestingly, there are no specific VRAM requirements (and both only want 16GB of system RAM), which is another problem modern PC games have been running into lately.

Starfield is out on September 6 for PC and Xbox Series X/S. You can play it from September 1, if you pay for the Premium Edition.