The Starfield thread

rambo919 said:
They know most people would instantly dump them for competing stores.

Steam used to be the devil but now they are less evil than the rest so few people still think that way.
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I guess, I was thinking more along the line of a choice to go the one way or the other. I do find downloading games from Steam is tons faster than most other stores, including Epic. And yeah, subbing for content is fine, but you are left to the whims of the publishing houses etc. Similar with something like apple music, you'll go onto your app one day to find that an album that was on there a week ago is no longer available to you to listen unless you "physically" bought it.
 
Primary reason I spent soo much time in FO4, 76 and Subnautica, Building and decorating, and looking for stuff you can place is soo addictive and therapeutic.

Starfield is going to be a looong one
 
johncgalloway said:
I guess, I was thinking more along the line of a choice to go the one way or the other. I do find downloading games from Steam is tons faster than most other stores, including Epic. And yeah, subbing for content is fine, but you are left to the whims of the publishing houses etc. Similar with something like apple music, you'll go onto your app one day to find that an album that was on there a week ago is no longer available to you to listen unless you "physically" bought it.
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Not a single digital store removed paid for content.

They removed off the storefront but no one removed anything from a library.
 
Okay, so, this is not something I intend to do @ scale, since that's not why I play RPGs, but later on maybe with a new char - who knows. I can't wait to build a nice home base for myself. HOWEVER, the pointing to moons with Titanium etc. is really nice and the tip about splitting the difference on a pixel to get a transition in biomes is nice, though I kinda figured that one with my first extraction base I built (mining Aluminiumumnum and errrr, something else.)


 
rambo919 said:
Then you probably should not bother, FO4 already basically required an SSD. I literally bought my first SSD because it became unplayable on HDD.
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It makes sense. Just haven't upgraded my PC in so many years haven't even considered an SSD as well. Will see if I can maybe even pop some of my ram in from the other PC to have 32 instead of 16
 
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RedViking said:
It makes sense. Just haven't upgraded my PC in so many years haven't even considered an SSD as well. Will see if I can maybe even pop some of my ram in from the other PC to have 32 instead of 18.
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If you have 18GB of RAM then your system is faulty :D should be 16 or 20. Theoretically you could probably get 18GB but it would require a 2GB DIMM which seems unlikely.
 
RedViking said:
It makes sense. Just haven't upgraded my PC in so many years haven't even considered an SSD as well. Will see if I can maybe even pop some of my ram in from the other PC to have 32 instead of 18.
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It started happening around the time FO4 was released that games and windows itself quietly started requiring an SSD. Cyberpunk I think was the first that explicitly states you NEED one.

SSD's are not as expensive as they used to be, given the increasing size of games.... it's wise to get at least a 1TB SSD that you use only for games that need it or as in my case OS and games that need it depending on your setup.
 
rambo919 said:
It started happening around the time FO4 was released that games and windows itself quietly started requiring an SSD. Cyberpunk I think was the first that explicitly states you NEED one.

SSD's are not as expensive as they used to be, given the increasing size of games.... it's wise to get at least a 1TB SSD that you use only for games that need it or as in my case OS and games that need it depending on your setup.
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/facepalm

Maybe that is also why I couldn't play Cyberpunk.
 
Beyond.Celsus said:
False
FO4 works fine on HDD
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Until you get to the middle of the map where infinite loading screens and crashes start popping up. There are mods that help mitigate this but the only fix for most people is an SSD. I remember being highly miffed about this when I ran into it but if it's the only thing that works it's the only thing that works so I shelved out and.... it worked.

If you play the game on an HDD and never ran into it... consider yourself very very lucky.
 
Contacting my local shop to see what they have in stock SSD wise.
Want to give the game fair judgement when working properly
 
rambo919 said:
Until you get to the middle of the map where infinite loading screens and crashes start popping up. There are mods that help mitigate this but the only fix for most people is an SSD. I remember being highly miffed about this when I ran into it but if it's the only thing that works it's the only thing that works so I shelved out and.... it worked.

If you play the game on an HDD and never ran into it... consider yourself very very lucky.
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Sounds like a you problem
 
BTW I remember watching this


No difference in framerates it seems but the loading takes forever on an HDD
 
Please don't take any performance-related comments from @rambo919 seriously. The dude is a committed luddite and refuses to upgrade his ancient PC, extolling the virtues of 4GB of VRAM.
 
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