My pc can barely keep up 💀

If they do a FPS Boost for the series X it would be Goated

It is disappointing that this game runs at 30fps, it is not surprising thought that it looks similar on both Xbox consoles. It does not reach the level of the games released past few years. A good example is The Last Of us Part 1 – look at the graphic, shadows, reflections almost like high quality RTX, the characters and the face expresions. And this is a remake of the 10y old game. To me Statfield is a total graphic and gameplay disaster of 2023.

This game has made me realise that I don’t actually like Bethesda games, and I’m not sure I ever did 😂

I’m downloading as I speak. Is this another mass effect game. Or better.?

Love it. Runs great on my series s. Cannot stop playing.

Will these BOTS compare series X vs PC? It’s a week now.

As much as I love DF content, I feel disappointed this time around. I was really reassured after watching the performance analysis on Series X and the lauded stable 30fps. Playing Starfield for the first time last night on my Series X (LG C1 TV), I can’t express how surprised I was at how the game feels sluggish/heavy. Camera panning is a pain. I’ve played stable 30fps games before and this is not how they feel. I can’t explain it, but it’s not a pleasant experience, unfortunately.

Blows my mind they took 7 years to make this and it’s shit 🙁

Starwars looks way better! And its an OLDER game!
Disappointed in this game. Looks pixelated in some spots. When turning around and looking around, you feel nauseous. There is slight screen tearing and it gets annoying. No options for 4K 30 frames vs 2K 60-120 fps. The cities look UNALIVE, same with the NPC’S. They are terrible.

can we please have someone else do important DF videos?? you have several excellent members who can do a much much better job

It’s one thing to say it’s stable at 30fps, but is 30fps really good enough in the 2023, and for what ought to have been an exclusive near-launch title? The game looks no better than a modded Skyrim Special Edition.

The one thing that really annoys me is 30 fps cap. Devs definitely could have lowered the resolution and detail to get 60, but too many people would be bitching about ‘bad graphics’. That’s sad.

Game is friggin amazing 😍🔥

Can’t believe we are talking even slightly positive about a game that at times even though rare runs at under 30 fps and on PC it isn’t much better. It’s actually gross and I’ve decided I’m going back to old games.

The game is so washed out on Xbox that its hard to believe you never encountered it during testing (you can even see the issues in your own footage). I can’t play for more than 30-40 mins at a time due to developing headaches from over brightness which can’t be adjusted in-game. Its almost like you guys chose to ignore this factor.

On PC the game is awful. Ryzen 2600, RTX 3060 12GB, 32GB RAM, New Atlantis jumps of fps on the level of 29-45 FPS. And I don’t like that feature “rendered resolution”, it is really bad, far objects are very pixelated or blurry.

The graphics are PS4 level. I actually think Shadow of the Tomb Raider looks better. The crap graphics are immersion breaking and the stupid 10 foot jump your character does.

after seeing the xbox series x version in person after playing the pc version on ultra settings since early access, i came to the conclusion that this video is an absolute joke. Starfield does not! look good on either S or X. It looks like a last gen game. We need a Series Z because these old consoles are already obsolete.

Ps5 player here !! I was gonna go out and buy a new Xbox just for this game but it’s running just fine through xbox cloud. One my last gen one s. I’m impressed I still wanna play the game native though …… 😂

Seems like there is problems all around. Even on PC, there’s very few options to reduce pixels to smooth out gameplay. Depending on how powerful you’re graphics card is, you might get a smooth experience with minor frame drops or, you get frame drops, audio bugs, and frame freezing every 20 seconds. When it’s good its good, but that usually doesnt last long on my GPU.

I am an xbox owner and I dont understand how xbox console owners are happy with a 30fps first party exclusive that has NO next gen features at all in 2023 and its almost 2024…., The PC community are enjoying starfield the way it should be played, and thats where all the postive reviews are coming from.. I wish Microsoft would had forced bethesda to get a 60fps mode for the series x and then released the PC version of starfield at a later date, similar to how Sony does with trheir exclusives..…Microsoft doesnt prioritize its own xbox consoles when it comes to next gen performance.. PC players are the majority subscribers of gamepass, so I guess they just cater to them when it comes to pushing the hardware to its limits……..

Brother man this is 30 fps at best, how can you call this pile of garbage unblemished performance? Where is the next gen because 30 fps is surely no next gen.

So… It… It actually just works?

Can’t get a stable 30fps on xbox series x when in major cities. Also 30fps in 2023 come on…

Just loaded up Starfield for the first time on my Xbox series x. It’s almost unplayable with the frame rate. Coming straight from other games it feels awful

Bug free are you serious we saw you guy picture with Todd and Phil I guess your deal was sweetened huh

Todd came to play this time

I bought my series s for 200 bucks while waiting for PS5 to become available. I must say I’m pretty impressed in how this game looks on the small machine. I have it running a 1080p monitor and it really looks good enough. Using the small xbox just as much as my PS5. Looking forward to the new forza motorsport releasing soon as well.

30fps on series X? Its 2023 not 2013😢

Though it looks good on Series X I’m glad I still went for the PC version. Having 100+ FPS has been a dream!

It is interesting that Bethesda’s past lowers the bar so low that a mostly polished game gets praises.
We should not be getting buggy games that look subpar to begin with.

30fps in the year 2023 wtf, I wouldn’t touch it even for free with such low fps.

I’m on series x and still facing a low FPS. Anyone else facing similar issues?

Playing now on series x, the game looks really pretty, But as I get older (my sight is not what used to be) and already got used to 60fps I am having a hard time playing without performance mode to be honest. I hope this won’t be the norm in games. I prefer less graphics and 60fps, I may buy a pc at some point if the 30 fps start being common.

Starfield is janky and vomit inducing on my Xbox series X.

Finally got hands on the game on xbox series x. The game looks great until you move, thanks to 30 fps. Personally I can’t play it at 30 fps, stutter fest. Hopefully someday it can get up to at least 60 fps for smooth motion.

idk why but my fps is so bad and i can’t find any settings to help, what do i do?

i’m on like 10 fps what do i do

Figured this game wouldn’t live up to the hype. Seems like a good enough game but nothing special at all. I’ll be totally fine to wait for a sale.

30fps no thanks, not in 2023. I’d rather have less graphic improvement and play 60 fps.

My game has crashed 3 time’s on me over 4 days and 30hrs+ on the series s.

I cant imagine playing in 30 fps…im hiting about 50 fps in cities with my 3060ti and it feels really not good, when its droping under 60fps.

So the world’s most powerful console can’t run his game at 60fps 😅

interesting that there is no comparison to PC.

Runs great on Series X, 32 hours in and only one had a pause and that was sprinting into the city. Its a mixed bag on my RTX3070 laptop gets 35-55fps at 2560×1600 with no scaling and most settings at high but it sounds like its going to take off into space, lol. Been sticking to the Series X though, solid framerate and looks great once you turn off motion blur (puke).

Imagine releasing a game in 2023 for the newest consoles and it can only handle 30 fps… 😂

Why are these new Games all come at 30 fps on these Consoles?
Where is the 4K 120 Fps bla bla …

frames>quality

At 8:35min why did we see Playstation 4? This game is not on playstation or ?

no 60 fps ? pfff…..

No 60fps not buying lol I like the game though

Boa noite, vim com todo respeito aqui a pedido de meu amigo Jean Sem vergonha pra tira o vídeo do ar, pois ele alega que seu conteúdo seja de má qualidade e que apresenta fakenews sobre as quedas que o jogo é polido, mas se não quiser tira deixa aí que o vídeo é bom e ninguém liga pra ele ❤

Stop using the phrase “top of mind” its literally a marketing term and technique. Understand why you use the words you use you absolute NPCs

You’re forgetting to mention the X you get 4k opposed to 1440p

30fps doesn’t even seem that bad ngl

So Bethesda launched a better game than CDPR with the Witcher 3 and the even worse Cyberpunk. Impossible.

Starfield crashed Several Times roday in my series s so there are Bugs.

Ah yes, 30fps just like 15 years ago 😅 perfect for the ultimate fps experience😂 to bad the casuals think its ok. Rather have a world the size of a peanut in 120fps then a huge world that make my brain hurt

Series S. Capado puro serrilhado ódio de ter comprado esse console.

Girerebbe anche su Xbox One X come gira su Series S…

How does TV smooth motion does it with this game?

I can’t remember people were hyped about a stable 30fps. Have i traveled back to 2005 or something?

30 frames on new gen in 2023 should honestly be illegal…

Dont play on s with all settings to 4k it frequently has issues rendering at one point new adlantis and most of my ship didnt load in but when set at 60 hz and 1440p ive not had any issues so far

Tbf the SS this is jaw dropping it can even run in a similar way to the far more powerful X, you can literally buy a second hand SS for £80, I got one for traveling due to size, it is a bargain even at £200, I have an X, a PS5 and a decent PC, not top of the line anymore but was 6 months ago, thats the issue with PC, constant upgrading is expensive, I’ll definitely be buying it, I don’t do gamepass unless I’m unsure about a game, I prefer buying physical copies but at the same time I have 273 digital games over 4 gens on XB and 191 on PS across 2 gens, I’m not a PC elitist mug, I’m not a fanboy of megacorps, that’s something for 15 year olds and younger, if anyone is 16 and above and a fanboy you really need to go sort your life out, I have an RTX4090 coming tomorrow but I paid £1500 for that, for that price I could buy a SX, a PS5 and PSVR2, literally and have change, not much change but still and I got mine a bit cheaper as rrp is £1999.

I hated this game first 30hrs. Then I started liking it, let’s see what it gives further 😏

Why no 60 fps man

finely a video from someone other than alex

dawg how do i get my game to look like that my game is at like 20 frames max and is so stuttery looking on series x

900p30 S
1440p30 X
Stable with drops in major cities.
Loadings everywhere

Nice game, for ps4/Xone era…
Pc port shows how dreadfully bad this game technically is.

30 fps 🙁

>2023 >30fps

Oh boy 😭

Finally Bethesda has created something good for once

FOV 70 though. 😕

I cant even get past title without it crashing

watching this makes me want to get it on pc instead id get it on xbox but since i saw the pause freeze i can sense some crashes on xbox console

Glad to see it has mostly consistent fps and not much bugs, can’t wait to play it myself

Will there be a 60 fps mode?

Sooooo each person you kill you gotta empty a whole magazine in them an reload😒😒😒😒. Very boring an unrealistic. Thank god for call of duty’s realism.

It shouldn’t matter how “demanding” the game is. To not have a performance option is not acceptable. 4K looks like shit when it is blurry from a poir frame rate. Todd Howard even stated that the game hit 60 fps, just not consistently. It sounds like they can’t optimize the game more than the excuse of a bottleneck. If your game is really that demanding (which I guarantee it could run at 60 fps with some effort on their part), then maybe they should wait until a stronger version of the Series X. $100 says, in time, modders will do Bethesda’s job and make it run at 60 fps. I’m so sick of people defending this crap from Bethesda yet simultaneously bitching about other games running at 30 fps.

30fps – never again

30 fps in any form of shooter no thanks

Guaranteed we get a patch on series X in the next year that unlocks frame rate. My guess is that Xbox wanted parity at launch so people didn’t crap on the series S too much.

a shooting game capped at 30 is SO BAD…

It is great that the game runs on consoles, but how on earth can an Xbox Series S run the game at a constant 30fps while my Nvidia 1060 6 Gigs cannot run it at any resolution and not even with aggressive upscaling? It’s an old card but it was usually equal to the console.
It’s sketchy how well this runs and looks on consoles while on PC it is choking the entire 10xx series to death.

Wow 30 frames on x box x we are complaining om 60 fps on pc

L box

several years of development and it still looks and plays this outdated? It literally looks like a big fallout 4 dlc😂😂

I can’t wait to see the video.
There is juste one thing I’d like to say before watching it, I think it can help.
I play on series x, and was soooo disappointed of the 30 fps that was tearing, It was hurting my eyes, the game was unplayable! I play on a LGc1 in 120fps… So I turn the console display settings on 60fps, and it fixed the problem, it became smoother. First time I Have to do this.

Digital Foundry>IGN

Playing on Series X. No FPS problems whatsoever so far. Loving the game.

BUT I think the game is very visually inconsistent. E.g. named NPCs look very good, but generic plainsclothed NPCs are more variable in quality.

More noticably, interiors and natural environments look great…But then you have New Atlantis, which I think looks underwhelming. Natural terrains and ship materials look of a much higher quality than some of the City interiors

30 fps. 😂

Consoles are such a joke 😂

Microsoft promised us that 60 fps will be a standard on next gen consoles. This is another game, which shows that they lied. I’m happy that I sold my XSX.

I feel like Bethesda should’ve hid the loading screens(on PCs with SSD), with your character in third person, doing the action while the camera is locked, so you can’t move it around, that would make going in and out of buildings/ship/elevator seamless for people that prefer that instead of actually getting to places faster.

That could be a toggle in game

Not touching this game until it gets 60 fps

Yeah i got 23 hours in this game and not had any repetative structures while exploring apart from the things that are intended to be the same. All i have been doing is exploring and building my ships up

Im only running a 3700x and a 2070 super and this game only pulls 30% cpu while pulling ,100% gpu. Cpu heavy my ass

Brilliant stuff DF.

It good too see that the Series X and S are Looking n Running very well Overall.

Anyone still thinks series s is holding back the next gen? If a complex game like starfield can run on series s , any shitty doom clone should run at 60fps on it. If it doesn’t, it’s the dev and not the hardware.

The series s is really laggy. Especially jumping. My eyes are scarred. I spent $107 on this game

AAA games shouldn’t be 30 fps in 2023, especially not for $69.99

this is a great game. don’t listen to all the crying out there, gamers are haters and keyboard warriors. just have fun and ignore the hate

This modded Skyrim is a ginormous dissapointment.

Flys up to examine moon…goes right through it 😅 cutting edge

This is exactly what I’ve been looking for. Im not a gamer per se. but Star Field “speaks” to me. I’ve been looking for a open world where I could play my way.

I’ve been debating getting Starfield on computer or Xbox. If Xbox S or X. Now I know, Xbox X it is. Thank You!

Thanks for posted this, that what I’m looking for. I’m not sure what I Should buy Xbox series X or S for Starfield. I think I can affordable for S.

I’m interested to see your PC performance review. I have been struggling to get it to run well on my PC. It seems to be very poorly optimized.

Good news about the XSS, i’m a ps5 owner and don’t have the money to invest in a decent oc rig, but i’ve seen the XSS as low as $200 and that’s not bad at all.

Credit where credit is due. The delays were smart and effective. Props to Bethesda for making this a solid launch. ❤ gonna be playing it on my Series S while foolishly hoping that someway, somehow I will be able to get it and platinum it on my PS5. BUT if not, I’m set anyway. 😊

30fps smh

series s lookin like pubg when it first launched

No, 30fps on console is NEVER a good choice. Even with the game being good or even great the framerate is inexcusable.
Modern DF in a nutshell…..

Basically Fallout 4 in space…

“The most polished game of bethesda”. Looool! fool me, i like.

Just 30fps ????

Hopefully we can eventually get 1440p 120fps on the series X

⁠lot of butthurt fanboys here crying cos they can’t gloat 😂

Is it me or does anyone think the XboxOneX can handle this game as well? Series S & One X to me are the same consoles different name 😮

Very pleased with the series S performance.

The graphics on this game are pretty bad. New atlantis looks god awful on series x

This review has to be a joke.

Is there any chance of FSR3 implementation??? If so, what benefits would you expect???

From what I’ve played so far on PC, it feels half optimized. Visuals are good but all GPUs from the 3000 & 4000 series oughta to push this game right along. Except they don’t, even with FSR2. I’m playing at 1440p and barely able to maintain 60 FPS with mixed high and medium settings. And where is DLSS?

Starfield is unplayable on PC at least on the Early Access if you buy the Premium Edition.

awesome video, I had concerns with my series S being able to run the game but now I am confident the experience will be enjoyable. Cheers!!

Looking forward to the PC analysis. My PC lines up almost exactly with the minimum specs, with a slight advantage on the CPU side, so I’m hoping performance is at least tolerable at 1080p with those specs so I don’t have to upgrade my PC or monitor.

xbots are happy with the 30fps garbage…lol

Pc framerate in shambles

If you play on a high end pc for any amount of time, 30 fps is unbearable

Spider-Man 2 > trashfield

I don’t see how anyone can play a game like this at 30 fps after playing any fps/3rd person game at 60 or more

It hit different when theres nothing else to compare it to. So whos really holding things back series s looks damn good

as well🤮

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Boooo! Nobody cares about consoles. Booooo!!!

Hi Digital Foundry. Can you make an episode about best tvs for gaming?👍

Incredible game, I did have an issue where my framerate was closer to 20fps. I gave up on the game after about 2 hours but then later realized I was having issues in other games… Restarted my Xbox and now it’s a smooth locked 30fps, much more enjoyable

30 🙁

0 fps jajaj

Glad the S version is holding its own against the big brother.

The lack of HDR is mind-blowing.

The fact that this is still the creation engine/gamebryo/NetImmerse impresses me. The engine seems to have taken some big steps forward from Fallout 4. The big question for me, is it still filled with Havok physics related jank.

Pc performance is all i care about. I already knew the series consoles would be 30fps and look bad.

30 FPS is unacceptable!!

Honestly, who cares about graphics if it’s 30fps. Give me 720 low 60fps over 4k ultra 30fps ANY DAY! Im on PC, so luckily I have that option. But I feel sorry for everyone on console who doesn’t. Put a graphics slider in already Todd its 2023, we don’t do 30fps anymore, especially not in first person shooters.

I have a 6650xt, which is very comparable to the series X. I can hit 60fps easily.

may aswell get a s for the price

Wtf the fps is important 2023, than play only 1080p but play the f…. last gen consol with 60 fps.

console players have such low expectations 😂 on pc, the performance is unacceptable.

The best thing though is that it’s on gamepass.

HDR?

Oh God…no 60fps

I’d like to see some pretty major updates on progress this Cit-con. I don’t need actual launch of features, as long as we get a pretty detailed and honest review of progress and plans.

The whole Video is wrong.
It looks garbage and runs garbage.

I have a Series X and this garbage game dont even run in 30 fps

Most of the times it runs more in 25 fps.

It feels so shit.

I was so hyped now iam angry because this kills all of the fun.

Imma have to get myself a 1tb series s for christmas I guess haha

Can anyone help me and inform me about the FPS. Is the FPS locked even inside buildings on console or is it dynamic.

Graphics straight out of 2015. It’s ridiculous how they couldn’t get the series x running at 60fps

Why do they that game looks good? It looks like a decade old garbage

Someone want to explain to me how my 2070 Super is somehow on par with the Series S?

Honestly, i’m very surprised with the Series S version. It looks good, i thought for a game as large and open as Starfield the downgrades would be far more severe. This just goes to show that if the effort is put in, the game can look great on both systems.

Im so sorry but this game looks so cheap and poorly made

There’s a lot of talk in the video about how this game’s launch is good for a Bethesda game, and how the quality control is good for a Bethesda game.

This game launched in a more playable state than Elden Ring, who required users on PS5S to downgrade to a PS4 version to get stable framerates.

It isn’t just a good launch for a Bethesda game, it’s a good launch for AAA gaming overall, better than even some games we consider GOTY, while having more content and a more expansive reach.

It seems like some studios will get no credit even when they buck the trend we’ve all been complaining about in AAA gaming, meanwhile we’ll give other studios known for poor performance-filled launches the pass to do so because they are darlings in the gaming world.

In my opinion, the 30 FPS limit is totally justified. The game looks stunning and really well in spite of its relatively low performance.

Is it just me or does the game suffer from overt brightness on the Series S? I’ve noticed in New Atlantis everything looks washed out. And in indoor spaces. But then there are times the game looks glorious

This game looks awful, most of gameplay i’ve seen was in empty grey locations + planets are just another bethesda style fake, its just regular closed locations and planet image basically serves as a door to it.

maybe just this game take so many pressure to cpu,XSX only run 2K 30fps native?ridiculous

How is it possible that this runs at 30fps on an Xbox Series X in 2023? Are you kidding me?

And I am wondering – is someone being ironic here? When saying it’s not always a stunner, then at 2:16 showing what is perhaps the most god-awful environmental design was a bit of a slap in the face. Am I on crazy-pills, or does New Atlantis look like incredibly basic? Other areas/cities look better – but NA specifically looks worse than Citadel on ME to me at least. Edit – I am also bemused by the choice of video capture at 9:06 when you talk about complex combat encounters – a fairly basic map, with 3? enemy NPCs doesn’t seem to say “complex” to me. Maybe a bad choice of clip. I am confused by all of this… also, and I’ve thought this for a long time, why would a narrative focused game in 2023 have such animatronic looking NPCs? I haven’t played the game, so I’m just going off trailers and captures… but they all look like they could have stepped through a worm-hole from 2013. Finally – if I was an XB-X user, I think them saying that the S was on-par with it’s 3x stronger sibling would be a little dis-heartening. Still it’s good news if you are an S owner.

The S going toe to toe with big brother 💪

Looking forward to trying in cloud mode with GP ultimate. Wont even try to install it until those memory card prices drop.

I still can’t believe this game has come out in a good state. Bought a new SSD just to play it. Well done bethesda

Yes xbox series s hold the gen 😂😂

The HDR implementation in this game is broken

what an absolute joke of a generation this is

Honestly, there should have been only like 5-10 planets. Ive traveled to a bunch of planets (like 1% of them) and im finding literally the same exact things on different plants. I would see something that looked so familiar and swear i seen it before. I thought i was going crazy. But then i ran into the same exact thing again for a 3rd time 2 hours later and realized i wasnt going crazy, this game is just copying and pasting the same thing on multiple planets. I can only imagine people who visit hundreds of planets are going to get annoyed by this. I would have definitely preferred if Bethesda only made 5 planets and put more hand crafted stuff on them.

Also this is not space exploration. Each “planet” is just a flat level blocked by menus and loading screens. Bethesda tried to make it appear like you are flying around in space with planets revolving around you but its just a hollow illusion. You cant actually fly to any of them you have to open a menu and load to them. Flying around to all of these 1000+ planets was the big selling point of the game and it was a borderline lie by Bethesda. Fallout 3 is still my favorite Bethesda game. I hope the Fallout show is successful so they will have demand to remaster Fallout 3. Because i honestly rather play a Fallout 3 remaster than Continue playing Starfield once i finish it. Starfield isn’t that game i was looking forward to playing for the next 10 years. Its a good game, but thats it. Nothing special.

yuck 30 fps

Thank you Cyberpunk.

Pathetic that the graphics are close 🤦🏻‍♂️ why pay $600 for a console if it’s going to look the same as the $300 console

I’m a guy who played Elden Ring & Cyberpunk on an Xbox One S, and didn’t have any issues in doing so. As long as the game plays on the system, I’m good.

I still have to finish Tears of the Kingdom tho

Can’t watch. I knew this would be a damage control piece. It’s so obvious.

Great news!

Well i disagree with this video. The game runs like shit on mu high end PC. So there has to be a issue there.

ok performance, boring as f game

so glad i paid for a new console and 100 bucks just for a game to be capped at 30fps

Imagine this game being remastered 15 years from now

why did they make a new gen fallout 4 ran better on ps4

Thanks for the usual amazing content. Great work. Looking forward to seeing the detailed breakdown

Can’t wait to play this impossible port on my switch oled…🤔

I don’t really get why people are mad that there is a limit if you run 45 minutes straight in one direction on a planet I think it’s because they expected to seemlessly land on the surface of a planet but idk

Way too long to make a game that’s missing literally all performance enhancing features. This is why UE5 will be great to use for even big studios that have proprietary engines.

This is what happens when customers don’t hold the company accountable. “Moders will fix it for free attitude.”

Well, I’m hoping that a 2080 super, amd 3800x with 32 gb of memory will run the game at 3840 x 1200. 🤞

But your really nit picking 😂

I’m playing on the S so this was my biggest worry that the game would run like a potato. Yes people will say why not get the x. See I’m a PlayStation guy so I got the 5 and got the S for my secondary console. So I didn’t want to get the x because I’m not a Xbox guy and pay for another expensive console.

30fps forget it

Phil Spencer’s black suitcase of money fell over this review.

It is really good that Bethesda pulled this release off.

The cut aways have not bothered me at all.

Happy for Xbox fans! This game looks great.

In almost 2024, after 2 generations of consoles that we are promised 4K60fps we are barely reaching 1440p30. Technological advancement is beautiful. Even if it means not having 4k, Bethesda could at least have offered a 1080p60 mode on Series X to compensate. Offering games in 30 fps on next-gen is ridiculous. Especially on an exclusivity which is supposed to highlight the hardware of the console in question.

please make a optimization video of COUNTER STRIKE 2 open beta

I do think they need a mode for 1080p owners on every game and more details and etc

I wish it was at least 60fps

I’ll be honest, I really don’t think the game looks that graphically impressive. At most it looks like Wolfenstein Young blood where the faces look like clay and there’s far too much hazy fog everywhere. In general it also looks like many finer objects and character models lack ambient occlusion making things look really flat. In fact in general it looks like the contrast in any image looks really flat.

Having loading screens instead of canned animations though is honestly probably better off to me. Does anyone really like staring at the animation of climbing a ladder than just hitting the load button? It’d honestly a more contrive thing in newer games with them always thinking you need to see everything in one cut.

I always find it funny how the differences are a lot more noticeable if you are a PC Gamer. the Xbox Series X version looks god (specially for a 500USD machine) but the Series S looks really, really rough, some of those textures feel as blurry as FSR on performance mode, the shadows in special don’t look that good, textures also take a performance hit, but thankfully the draw distance wouldn’t be really noticeable during gameplay, it’s a very good showing for the price of the hardware. The foliage on the other hand feels very low res, and there’s a few moments (like 6:45) where the visual artifacts are very obvious. Considering what we saw from PC benchmarks, my guess is that Bethesda just went with 30FPS because the game is extremely CPU intensive! Bethesda deserves a lot of praise for this game, because it looks amazing and it’s surprising that for a game like this the performance isn’t awful out of the gate, with that being said it does seem that the game has large frame drops on the 1% and .1% lows regardless of what you are playing it on

Please John (Oliver? I can’t tell) stop whispering. I had to put on subtitles because I can’t hear you without the neighbours noticing.

1:21 ooff that AI isn’t looking very promising. I counted 4 seconds for the npc not being shot to react and turn around to defend themselves.

😂😂😂😂😂 did u get the money?😂😂😂😂😂

Can’t wait to check it out

So you have to get the patch or you wont have 30fps pretty locked?

30 fps is not understandable. I looks worse than than Cyberpunk 2077 and fraction of its world complexity, so what freaking justification are we talking here for christ sake? Are you freaking drunk guys? Look 10:25 scene – looks absolutely dreadful.

Since the game is only 30fps and doesn’t look so good at all… i guess perfect game to play over xcloud streaming if your a ps4/5 player. I would also recommend to try Valheim and State of decay 2. Valheim has still a chance to be released on ps5 tho.

I’ve had a few minor bugs I had nothing no crazy. Reported them so hopefully they’ll be fixed. That said I’m really enjoying the game. I’d give it a 8/10

The pc is what I want to see for best settings

PC performance is currently broken. You’re lucky to see 60fps on Low in New Atlantis. All the while near 100% gpu thrashing.

Well I was debating whether I’d get this game since I don’t use my xbox anymore but seeing that it’s locked at 30fps I’m definitely not touching this shit. I didn’t pay this much for a console for the one game it gets since launch to be locked at 30 😂

This looks really good, but it would be great if Xbox could get a developer that can deliver the level of polish (e.g., loading screens, framerate) that developers like Naughty Dog, Santa Monica, Insomniac are delivering for PS exclusives

I’m looking forward to a 60fps mod, 30 just doesnt look good to me anymore. They bang on about fidelity over framerate then they still use upscaling 😅. I get there has to be trade offs but if we have VRR that excuse becomes weak use VRR well and give me a frame rate unlock 🤣🤣

no armored core video out yet….????

Tod lied, bounderies on planets. what a joke.

It’s actually over a thusand planets right. ?

This game looks super washed out.

So far I couldn’t get a stable 60 fps on my 2060 supper with a ryzen 5 3600 and a sata ssd. I was able to run cyberpunk on medium or even high with dlss with some ray tracing but this game that looks a lot less advanced graphically I can barely hit 50 in a big city.

Can say console even tho at 30fps is better than PCs mess rn

Always kickass content from you guys

“tHe SeRies S is hoLDing GAmeS baCk”

With how similar the two look it seems crazy that the X couldn’t do 60fps like the PC will.

Im shocked to hear the fps is 1440p on series. Ive been playing on PC and obviously it looks better there but my PC is set to 75% resolution and upscaling to 4K. Series x looks demonstrably worse and has a lot of shimmer around the edges of NPCs. Im curious why that is since my PC and Xbox are at the same res. Must be the settings being higher on PC compared to console.

30 fps on Series X is unacceptable. The game seems so boring. Im watching Dr Disrespect play right now and even as entertaining as he is, this is a snoozefest. No Mans Sky runs at high framerate with no issues. Passing on this for now.

its a game with trashy performance and experiences, I believed Microsoft need fire many employees who are not doing their jobs.

nothing shown here explains why this game is 30 fps.
i remember some folks here trying to use “simulating planets” as a defense mechanism…well they sure do “Simulate” planets right lol. i cant believe we still have to load into buildings in 2023 with these guys

Why nobody talks about the washed out visuals? No hdr, no brightness settings

Really wish Digital Foundry would stop giving such slack on the 30fps dilemma. 30fps is unacceptable, there are no excuses. This game does not look or feel next gen in any compacity, its being revealed how linear the game is in reality and 30fps just shows laziness on Bethesda’s part.

Enemy AI is a mess, dialogues are a mess, faces are a mess, shots and explosions that you can hear in space are a mess (there’s no air, so no atoms and molecules, in space, therefor it’s impossible to hear anything in space except when you’re in the cabin or your breathing through your suit), you can’t fly and land your spaceship wherever and whenever you want, most of the planets are the same… So no, this ain’t a good game. Sure if you don’t mind those details I just named it can be a good game for you. Not for me.

$70 for 30fps is crazy

So 1 unrendered smudge is better than another unrendered smudge, am glad i got the S

I haven’t really enjoyed a Bethesda RPG since Morrowind. This looks okay even if it lacks depth and I might get the PC version at some point, though I would probably rather watch 2001: A Space Odyssey twenty more times.

Great review! Thanks.

Starfield is the game that will mark the half-life of Xbox series X. I have a feeling that in a not so distant future, Microsoft will re-sell Xbox Series X with an even more powerful hardware upgrade and will use a potential increase in FPS on this game a a selling point. Mark my words.

Finally a game which is playable on day 1. Hope PC version also gets same good treatment.

The big fail.

Honestly I’d be pissed about just 30fps with no 60fps option, combined with low res/low details stemming from the usual lazy FSR upscaling approach. It’s XB1/PS4 with sjit performance all over again, barely 3 years into the release cycle of the generation. How do game devs get away with junk like this on most games this year?! Why is no one vocal about this lazy approach of “optimization”!? what. the. hell. …is every outlet paid for or afraid of harsh criticising?! smh

Usually DF puts out a technical analysis before a performance focused one so it was very nice of them to invert things here to put people at ease given BGS track record with bad performance at launch

“Super polished” LOOOL. I understand you game reviewers have your bias to certain games/studios but come on… there are npc’s, objects, enviroments glitching all over the place. Shadow bugs, lightning bugs, notorious pop ups of elements, render quality bugs, etc etc etc…. You are actually doing a disservice to the game industry by not acknowledging these flaws and calling it a super polish experience.

The lack of performance and stability on FO4 was due, in large part, to the truly awful optimisation. It wasn’t a case of “oh, this texture is a little bit too big” or “this map uses too many light sources/shadows”, but rather “oh, this one interior map also loads in the entire map, in full detail when you can’t even see outside).

It was ridiculous, and hopefully bethesda has learned from that fiasco!

Couldn’t care less about the Crapbox. Looking forward to the PC version, the version that will be the best.

30fps? is this 2002?

Na, this must’ve been the biggest paycheck you have received.
Either. That or my Series X is broken.
My experience has been very different to yours.

where HDR?

Give me 1080p I don’t care, just make it 60fps

“largely bug free”
I am shocked. MS finally took over for real.

It don’t know how but it looks old but good at the same time.

Like a 2010 game in hyper ultra settings.

Performance on PC is absolutely disgusting

30fps no go in FPS.🤣😂😂

I cant play this game on 30fps. Aiming sucks big time

Would be nice if you could show us some optimized settings for the PC version 🙂

Bummer there’s no performance mode on Series X, 30fps shouldn’t be the standard today. Especially not after playing Dead Space and Cyberpunk at 60fps on the Series X. Might look at the PC version, 30fps is painful to me. Just my opinion Bethesda fans, not trying to start a fight. Also, why does everything look like there’s a haze (or fog) everywhere? I can understand some situations being that way, but it looks smokey in almost every scene.

Who’s feeling a bit more relieved?

30fps is not a problem at all as long as its stable.

30fps? i’d take slightly lower graphics for 60 any day

2:16 wow nice full Lambert! Been ages since I’ve seen anything like that lol

They were devoloping this game for 6 years. They couldnt optimeze the game in 60 fps. This is unacceptable

So no 60fps? What a disappointment. The game doesn’t look good enough to warrant natively rendering at 1440p@30.

Finally we get to play it 😎

Got a 13600k and 2070 super. Havent had any shader stutter. Based on recent releases, it feels like a Christmas miracle lol

Watched some of your latest performance tests, fake news, all of them.

I’m sorry. But I don’t believe you..

Congrats Xbots for your first good game 🤭

I’m buying Xbox S specifically for this game as I’ve a low spec PC. Nice video, cleared my doubts. I have played games in 30 FPS lowering all the settings, so I guess I won’t be able to tell the difference.

Runs terribly on PC though 🙁

30 fps is horrible man I hope my pc will handle this above 60fps I really don’t wanna use my xbox

Wierd how its a performance analysis yet he goes into how he feels about the game. Dont do this in the future.

Thank you all for the very important work that you do. May it continue to bring you success and renown. Cheers!

It’s so good on Series S,
i’m happy now to kept my series s..

Steam version needs a patch to fix the horrible HDR experience. The blacks in the game are horribly crushed. I’m playing on an OLED and the entire screen looks like a grey blob.

“bug free” did this guy even play this game at all? 😂

The crowds still seem thin and the NPC behavior no different than Skyrim.

10:28 really gonna defend garbage 30fps? How the mighty digital foundry has fallen

Amagad, those faces!

Gonna wait and hope for a 60fps update in the future

Good to see game from Bethesda that’s not being bashed

Been playing and I don’t understand why this isn’t 60fps when a game like Cyberpunk is on the Series X. If it’s just about persistent item placement then I don’t get that choice. Who the fuck cares about collecting sandwiches over fps?

“Perspective players perturbed ”
Bro, you already got the job, use common language so us regular gamers can focus on if the game is good/runs good instead of having to use context clues to understand what you’re saying. Focus on the normal people not other journalists that are gonna steal your work

I’ve played about 5 hours and I love it, but the Frame rate is ruining my enjoyment. I’m not sure why people are so forgiving of this. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I think I’m going to wait to play this, until they figure out some way to get 60 FPS on series X. I know I’m going to sink tons of time into this, but if I’m nauseous after 5 hours, what’s the point. I mine as well wait. I’m sure modders will figure it out

This review same fake like he’s reading from a shrimp Microsoft for Bethesda gave them cuz I looked at another video of the dude who did an in-depth review who played over 50 hours and took notes and said if your under 15 to 20 hours of playing a game you won’t notice the bugs and issue it’s after you cross 30 hours in the game where all the issues are fully shown this review was probably off at 10 hour playthrough with notes from Microsoft or Bethesda not even worth looking at the video

I heard for being 30 fps its still smooth and better than most 30fps games.

Performance means nothing when the game constantly crashes on Xbox

4:30 – it’s not better or worse, because it’s the same – it’s generated from the same materials, they’re just mixing differently for everybody. if you have two characters on the same console, there should be difference too.

lier

It’s good to see that both consoles are performing well.

Df is clearly sold, the game looks like a 2013 game and runs like a 2050 aaa game, why xbox version first? Bc its the only one that isn’t broken how are you guys going yo justify the extremly bad pc port?

microsoft gonna buy digitalfoundry soon

Bug and hiccups are fine in games. If your worried about them, you aren’t letting yourself have fun.

30 FPS on modern gen consoles 😮‍💨

I’m sorry, I have it on PC and Xbox Series X, the 30 fps cap on consoles it destroys the fluidity and immersion experience imo. I played on the Series X for 10mins until I had to switch back to PC.

hoping to see a PC controller/joystick implementation review somewhere

John sounded like he wanted to sleep through his review, bless.

I can clearly see the No Man’s Sky and Fallout influence.

1 more ultra demanding game without being next-gen 😂😂😂

Remember, being next-gen game is not just being available on new consoles

(2d indie are also available for them, and of course are not Next-Gen)

The optimization of these 2023 games are getting worse and worse…

We’re seeing this on the new UE 5 too, they’re not that all but extremely demanding…

Immortals of nobody, Remnant 2 , Fortis Solis etc ARE NOT THAT ALL in graphics but run like garbage…

wtf I googled if there was a difference in performance between these two consoles and i only saw articles saying there is no difference so I bought the series a. Now I’m seeing the series x looks way better

Sure it’s stable on XSX but it was making me nauseous with the choppiness last night anytime I moved my camera more than at a snail’s place. I have gotten so accustomed to 60-120FPS of other games on the system.

Omg so nice to hear this isn’t a buggy mess.

Dear developers, we have proven that we will not tolerate a buggy mess. If you aren’t willing to delay your game to get the bugs out, then just don’t build games. I know cash flow is hard to manage but releasing buggy messes doesn’t work so just go do something else with your life energy

Are we seriously going to praise 30 fps with upscalers and outdated graphics now and hitches here and there? “Smooth visuals, solid combat”? Are you freaking serious?

It’s garbage. Currently I’m not long in, just reached the huge city. But, I equipped my gun somehow and shot somebody. Now everything’s gone crazy, I’m being killed over and over again with no end. I can’t even put my gun away, there’s no way to unequip weapons lol. And there’s no map to this city, I need to sell stuff, too heavy and use up all my O2 even though I’m on earth with no space suit on. I had to drop my space suit to take it off lol. I wonder if that’s how you unequip weapons?? Anyway, ima uninstall this garbage.

Cyberpunk 2077 in shambles

Is this kinda like Mass Effect 🤔

Refreshing to hear a Bethesda game is actually worth checking out on or around release. Looking forward to checking it out on game pass soon.

This hasn’t been my experience at all on Series X. It has crashed on me constantly, and I’m only four hours in.

If Starfield does hold up on the consoles, its proof that the fault actually lies with both AMD and Nvidia releasing crap “current” generation GPUs that are only equal to their last generation GPUs for slightly lower prices, yet we have some Youtubers absolutely singing their praises as if lower prices somehow equal higher performance. And don’t even start with the “pay to turn the resolution down” FSR and DLSS nonsense…

30fps and sub-4K resolution. Disappointing.
This was supposed to have been exceeded by the One X, yet the vastly more powerful Series X is still not getting native 4K or 60fps in many games.
Are some developers letting us down?

So it looks and plays the same on a $500 console as it does on a $300 console.

Series X should have at least been 1440p 60fps

This review is weird. I’m far from a graphics snob, and usually DF videos annoy me with how critical they are. While some of what they showed looked pretty good, so much of it looks incredibly mid. The character animations look nearly early XB1/PS4 era. I don’t get how they’re sounding so positive. It’s possible the gameplay is great, and it’s a fun game, but this video really feels off coming from DF.

I am suprised the DF team did not mention that HDR is broken on the Xbox version (elevated black levels and massively reduced bright levels) and is not supported on the PC version

Starfield is trash 😂😂😂

A pc optimization guide please.

Will FSR 3.0 come to consoles in this game, so you can expect a 60 FPS mode in upcoming patches?

Why don’t you ever comment on HDR implementations in games? In this game it’s an absolute joke on console and not even implemented on PC. The SDR is also a shitty grey mess. John is very vocal about PQ on Twitter but never mentions HDR ever or extremely rarely in videos (yes I know this isn’t his video). Mind boggling how you can’t comment on this. 70 dollar triple A game btw

It’s not buggy so far but the performance is far from 30 at all times.

Looking forward to playing tonight. Hope they patch those performance issues you mentioned with some of the cities etc.

Im sorry but this game does not look that great. I dont understand the hype. I was hoping id be able to actually use my series x for more then 360 games. Lol

Another Beta version of a game that you can buy for 60 euros

*Hopefully FSR3 helps*

This is probably the worst looking current gen release to date, aside from that Gollum game. It literally would feel at home on a PS3. It’s like their tech hasn’t advanced at all and it looks even less grounded and mushy compared to later releases of Skyrim. Is Microsoft seriously betting on this to be the killer app for a waning Xbox? Even as a swansong it’s beyond mediocre. The game looks like mush with almost no shadows, low quality textures, no material specularity, and terrible motion blur that blends it all into one continuous mud-drenched pants look. And as if it wasn’t drab enough, somehow there is this continuous haze throughout like they screwed up the gamma and black levels are extra gray, except you can clearly see the HUD is black as expected. And thanks to this channel, I can already point out FSR without trying. It’s that irritating “crunchy” look that resembles a phone camera upscaling a garbage low resolution image, smearing and oversharpening everything, usually some night mode long exposure from the tiny telephoto camera using AI to stack multiple images. Basically it’s trash.

how could you not mention the shit broken hdr and sdr?

Why are games so intensive these days? Anybody know?

Watch Luke Stephens review where he plays longer than 20-25 hours. He encountered alot of bugs when got by the 40 hour mark. Seems like they polished the start where they think most people will reach before a few big patches.

No mention of no HDR??? It looks soooo washed out on oled.

Paying $70 to $100 for a 30 fps capped, buggy not complete release in 2023.

While back in 2000-2004 most ps2 games came out completely bug free , complete and ran at 60fps.

The best times of gaming are truly gone.

As a Series S player, I’m very happy to see that the game looks awesome and runs fine on the lil white brick. Personally, 30FPS is fine, so long as it’s a stable 30, which judging by Ollies coverage is mostly the case outside of larger city maps. So no qualms here from me! Can’t wait to sit down and play it!

From what I have played so far I am really liking the game. 30 fps on an OLED is not a good experience though

I cannot believe it, Bethesda did it.

I know I should wait to play it for myself but I was not expecting 30fps to look so good

I am so disappointed in DF how you have all just kept hush about how this game doesn’t even support HDR on PC at launch, not even a gamma slider.

Starfields presentation is absolutely abysmal on PC in both SDR and HDR yet none of you have mentioned anything about it.

The colours are so washed out and its just so bad for a game set in space with deep blacks, it’s 2023 and HDR support is barely a big ask it’s just a standard feature expectation.

How can you call this a performance review and not mention the abysmal/nonexistent SDR/HDR & black levels?

Want an unlocked fps mode for the SC with Series S fidelity

I think Series S is a liability and should ‘ve never been made at the first time :/
Who would want 512 GB of storage in these days n age ?

Great video, initial performance looks promising! I hope you guys plan to do a somewhat detailed analysis of how it runs on Steam Deck, fingers crossed

A stable game launched by Bethesda
Thats an achievement

The game graphically looks very bland and dull. Gameplay wise it doesn’t look like it’s gonna be as boring as I thought it was gonna be. I thought it would be like No Man Sky shooting rocks for ages.

Pc or noting really

I won’t say the game looks terrible, but it doesn’t push any technical boundaries either. I understand the reason for 30fps, but I was expecting a higher internal resolution on Series S, as 900p is way too low for FSR 2 to reconstruct from, and the result shows. NPC models also look very flat, even for last gen standards. Also, the reports from PC version are not positive, it’s supposedly unoptimized like every Bethesda game and fan patches are already being developed.

I’m a big Fallout fan and I think it’s a good game, but they really need to replace their janky engine with a more modern one, ideally id Tech, which already belongs to Microsoft anyway. This evolution of Gamebryo engine is just not cutting it anymore.

i still sit with a 1080p monitor. game must look bad in 1080p

So sad there is no 60fps mode or at least vrr unlocked framerate, what about backward comp in the future, locked 30fps is bad as we know from rdr2

The game looks so “Uninspired” and bland 😢 the colors and enviroments looks bland and empty… 🙄 Im gonna give it try on Series X once the price of the game drop about 50-60% but Im much more hyped for Fallout 4 full “Next-Gen” version release 🤗

Wow, im excited to play now.. ngl i was a little worried about 30fps but after watching this, i dont think it will be as big of a deal..

It just seems to me that the graphics are very miserable?

The black level raise is horrible

Really impressed with Series S. Will be playing on PC main, but nice to have the Series S as a playable backup with Cloud Saves if I want to do some side quests on the bedroom TV 🙂

After watching this, I have zero doubt that Forza mototsport is either a beauty or an attempt by microsoft to show that the xbox 360 has raytracing capabilities.

a 30fps first person shooter….lmfao

garbage of the year