Bethesda’s spacefaring RPG Starfield is nice, by all accounts. But like just about each huge, open-world sport Bethesda makes, it’s launched with some bugs and efficiency points. What do you have to do in the event you’re working into points? According to the sport’s director Todd Howard, “…You may need to upgrade your PC for this game.”

That was in reply to a pointed query, “Why did you not optimize this game for PC?” from Bloomberg Technology (although to be honest, the interviewer says he’s taking the query from viewers options). Howard’s full reply is as follows:

“Um, we did. It’s running great. It is a next-gen PC game, we really do push the technology, so you may need to upgrade your PC for this game. But it’s got a lot of great stuff going on in it, and the fans are responding awesome.”

“Great” is, maybe, a relative time period. As PCGamer notes, Starfield has no scarcity of the launch bugginess for which Bethesda RPGs are notorious. And although it’s a pretty heavy sport by way of visible constancy, it’s not as demanding as many current AAA releases, probably as a result of it’s working on a variation of the identical Creation sport engine that’s been powering Bethesda open world video games since Skyrim approach again in 2011.

Even so, loads of players are having issues, to the purpose of finding solutions in a “potato mod” that turns down the visible constancy. Starfield also requires an SSD, a primary for a contemporary triple-A PC sport. As it occurs, proper now could be a very good time to improve a gaming PC. There are new budget and competitive mid-range GPUs around, flash storage and RAM costs are loopy low, and there are some actually thrilling developments proper now, like “the War on Cables.”

Still, all of that’s small consolation in the event you’re not able to drop a number of hundred {dollars} on an improve, or 4 figures on a model new machine. It’s potential that the query of optimization is a bit more warranted than Howard was keen to confess. It’s nearly sure that Starfield will get efficiency enhancements because it enters full launch, and up to date GPU drivers (like a quick Intel Arc update that made the sport truly boot) will assist too.