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Todd Howard asked on-air why Bethesda didn't optimise Starfield for PC: 'We did [...] you may need to upgrade your PC' (www.pcgamer.com)

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lol. has anyone found ways to optimize starfield for their pc, like reducing stuttering, FPS drops, etc?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So what's this about modders immediately being able to improve performance with mods within a week after release?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's usually several small things, like stopping the game from reading a 5GB file several times over and over again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They only meant to say that Bethesda did optimize throughout the development process. You can't do gamedev without continually optimizing.
That does not mean, Bethesda pushed those optimizations particularly far. And you can definitely say that Bethesda should have done more.

Point is, if you ask "Why didn't you optimize?", Todd Howard will give you a shit-eating-grin response that they did, and technically he is right with that.