According to Bethesda Support, even the Intel Arc A770 GPU does not meet Starfield's PC minimum requirements.
According to Bethesda Support, even the Intel Arc A770 GPU does not meet Starfield’s PC minimum requirements.
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Yeah, that makes sense. They probably can’t properly support a video card they couldn’t get their hands on due to Intel not shipping it until late last year. They also aren’t that powerful of cards. Lastly the Intel drivers are brand new. Most engines are not treated against them, as such there are a lot of corruption bugs. Which makes sense because they weren’t able to get the cards early enough to support them. Since Intel has now discontinued their flagship arc card not even a year after release it’s unlikely any games will really support Intel gpus in the future.
That’s a bit disingenuous. It’s Intels own Limited Edition A770 SKU that is discontinued not the A770 as a model. They still ship the chip to AIB makers like ASRock etc. Their second generation, BattleMage, is still on track as well so on the contrary I believe we’ll see much better support for Intel GPUs in the coming years since more game developers will have had adequate time with the hardware. Intels cards are also priced competitively if we’re looking at the entry level cards which is bound to make them end up in many cheaper pre-builts that parents buy for their younger kids. So I expect to be quite commonly used for certain games in the coming years.
Thanks for correcting the disinformation.
The limited edition wasn’t limited in the sense they planned to stop making them. It’s their flagship. This is what I got off of a few articles. If they are still shipping chips to people, it wasn’t clear from a few places I read this from. Additionally battlemage information seems to be all from leaks.
Either way with how shotty the drivers have been went how little hardware has been available to place blame at video game developers for not supporting their cards is silly.
I’m placing 0 blame on developers here but it’s just a fact that Intel can’t reasonably optimize the drivers for all games past and present in such a short time. And developers haven’t had access to the card for even remotely long enough for it to be part of the testing for any game (outside small titles maybe but they generally don’t need special treatment driver wise) releasing this year or next. AMD and Nvidia have literal decades of head start. So while I would’ve wanted Intel to do a better job I’m not trivializing the monstrous task either, and all things considered they’ve done OK. Not great, not horrible.
If it wasn’t clear in the articles you read then those places wanted the clicks and engagement that comes from vaguely implying that Intel is killing their GPU division.
Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it - Jonathan Swift
Whaaaat? That’s disappointing ☹️ I was hoping finally there’d be some more competition
They didn’t discontinue their cards, only the limited edition one.
Ohh, thank you for the clarification!
You’re welcome :) I’m actually going to buy the 770 by the end of this year. Heard it works great on Linux.
I saw a graph yesterday that put them squarely between the nvidia 4000 and the latest AMD gen in terms of performance. M
Edit: I have bad memory. Here’s the graph. https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/QKdmNvH8KqrZmnnqRDiz6k-970-80.png.webp
Yeah, no, pretty sure they just didn’t test on/optimise for Arc. The underpaid support rep probably looked at “Intel GPU” and thought it was an integrated GPU of some kind. Maybe they just looked at “770” and came to the conclusion that 770 is lower than 1070 or 5700 and must therefore be too poor to run the game.
However, since Intel’s updates apparently made the game run, it’s possible that the problem lies with Intel in this case. Their drivers aren’t exactly the most reliable part of the equation and corrupted textures sounds like a low-level issue with Intel’s implementation.
I’m sure it’ll run fine once Intel updated their drivers. Maybe they should do what AMD did, and send over a bunch of programmers to make the game run well on Intel and give it XeSS without mods.
What’s the Intel equivalent to the nVidia 4080?
How is that relevant? RTX 4080 is not a the minimum requirement for Starfield.
there isn’t one. At the moment, they aren’t aiming that high. Their performance varies wildly from game to game, but at best, their most powerful card atm punches at about 3060 levels.