Starfield Best Settings Guide For PC

Muhammad Ali Bari August 30, 2023

Bethesda Game Studios’ latest role-playing game, Starfield, is now available in early access, and we’ve put together the best PC settings for getting optimized performance on mid-end system specs.

Before we delve into the best settings for the PC version of Starfield, make sure you’ve updated your GPU drivers and Windows to their latest respective versions. Additionally, disable or close any unnecessary background applications in order to reduce the CPU overhead as much as possible. The settings detailed ahead should provide a more optimized balance between graphics and frame rate compared to the presets available in-game.

Starfield Best Settings

The settings below are there to serve as a broad starting point for further optimization based on your specific hardware specs. As a result, you may need to tweak some settings until you find a sweet spot based on your display’s refresh rate and the overall performance you seek.

DISPLAY OPTIONS

Aspect Ratio: the native aspect ratio of your display
Resolution: adjust as per the native resolution of your display and preference
Refresh Rate: adjust as per the max refresh rate of your display and preference
Display Mode: Fullscreen
Dynamic Resolution: On
Render Resolution Scale: Default (or lower, depending on GPU)
Graphics Preset: Custom
Shadow Quality: Medium
Indirect Lighting: High
Reflections: High
Particle Quality: Medium
Volumetric Lighting: High
Crowd Density: Medium
Motion Blur: Medium
GTAO Quality: High
Grass Quality: High
Contact Shadows: Medium
VSync: Disabled on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, Enabled otherwise
Upscaling: FSR2
Sharpening: Default
Enable VRS: On
Film Grain Intensity: None (or as per preference)

Starfield is an action role-playing game created by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It was revealed at Bethesda’s E3 presentation in 2018. Set in a space-themed environment, the game marks Bethesda’s first new intellectual property in 29 years. Starfield is set to launch on September 6, 2023, for Windows and Xbox Series X/S, though those who purchased the Digital Premium or Constellation editions can play it a week earlier on August 31, 2023.