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#3124138 6-Sep-2023 11:40

Preinstalled on xbox series X.

Not released yet. States - coming later on today!

Watching Twitch to see if I will actually play it.

The little things make the biggest difference.

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#3124199 6-Sep-2023 14:49

Should have released at noon(12:00) if you have pre-loaded you may want to start the unpacking process so you don’t have to wait later.

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#3124691 7-Sep-2023 16:31

Quick comment: Gigantic learning curve for me - totally new to Xbox (it’s not at all similar to PS5) + Starfield’s non-intuitive UI (although reminiscent of Fallout 4). Struggling with the game but slowly making progress as I learn what’s going on. Thought the space flying tutorial was a totally unfunny joke - make one false move and it decides you’re an experienced pilot and cancels the rest of the tutorial. Despite all this I’m enjoying the learning and the experience - and I’m sure it’ll be great when I get more adept - and when it all becomes second nature. But it might take a while.

Main comment: My controller won’t stay wirelessly connected to the game - but it’s fine when wired. Every few minutes it stops and tells me “you need a controller to play this game - click A to confirm”. Then it’s OK for a while then it happens again. Being new to Xbox I had no idea what was going and spent several hours trying everything under the sun - making sure both OSs up to date, re-starting everything, re-pairing, etc etc. Nothing has fixed it and Bad Words were said. Thought the controller was FUBAR and considered taking the whole thing back to The Warehouse for an exchange.

Then I found this via google. Seems I’m not the only one with this problem - there may be an issue with the game. So for now I’m playing with a wired controller (not my first choice but not a biggie if temporary) and hoping that, if it is a game issue, Bethesda will put out an update to fix it.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#3128399 16-Sep-2023 07:04

eracode:

Main comment: My controller won’t stay wirelessly connected to the game - but it’s fine when wired. Every few minutes it stops and tells me “you need a controller to play this game - click A to confirm”. Then it’s OK for a while then it happens again. Being new to Xbox I had no idea what was going and spent several hours trying everything under the sun - making sure both OSs up to date, re-starting everything, re-pairing, etc etc. Nothing has fixed it and Bad Words were said. Thought the controller was FUBAR and considered taking the whole thing back to The Warehouse for an exchange.

Then I found this via google. Seems I’m not the only one with this problem - there may be an issue with the game. So for now I’m playing with a wired controller (not my first choice but not a biggie if temporary) and hoping that, if it is a game issue, Bethesda will put out an update to fix it.

This thread has gone very quiet - I guess everyone is fully engrossed in the game - as am I.

No-one has said anything about my issue reported above, so I guess no-one else has experienced it. I’ve found a few Twitter discussions on it - there’s a number of people experiencing it but it doesn’t seem to be hugely widespread. It appears to be a game issue - not a hardware issue. I was hoping that yesterday’s patch would fix it - but no.

I’ve formally reported it to Bethesda Support. They have acknowledged the report - if not the issue - and have escalated it for investigation.

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#3128405 16-Sep-2023 08:17

eracode:

This thread has gone very quiet - I guess everyone is fully engrossed in the game - as am I.

Thanks this gave me a bit of a chuckle.

Sorry about your xbox issue, welcome to Bethesda bugs I guess.

I am still playing..... not that engrossed but I am enjoying exploring a quest line or two every couple of days.

Thank goodness for modders. I have already installed half a dozen QoL mods, a shader mod and modified FoV in the ini.

The game is fun in bursts and will be something i will play overtime.

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#3128484 16-Sep-2023 10:39

Busy week at work and not much opportunity to play, but still able to duck in and out for 30-60 mins in the evenings and it's great. Played a few hours last night. Currently level 32 but I'm not doing any kind of xp intensive stuff like base management etc, so I'm fine with a slow and steady increase in level. There's SO MANY skills to invest in, and each skill as 4 sub-levels, and all of them cost a skill point. For the casual / semi non-casual player it's a LOT of playtime required to get the range of skills you want. I ended up investing fully in carry capacity levels 1-4 and that helped my early game a great deal. I've done the Crimson Fleet and Rangers faction quest lines and they were super fun. The latter gets you a very nice ship. Also the Mantis quest is very fun and because of the Mantis' reputation sometimes when you jump to a system and start getting attacked, once they realise who you are they all freak out and jump away! Also make sure you pick up the Revenant gun when you see it. There's only one chance in one quest, it's beside a computer terminal just staring at you but can be easy to miss. Great weapon. Oh the other thing I did was invest heavily in research progress, so I can now upgrade suits and weapons all the way.

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#3128971 18-Sep-2023 13:14

The comment about being busy playing is about right. I ended up getting $1 for 14days gamepass deal to play the game. I don’t think I will renew though, the main/faction stories are about all that interest me and Cyberpunk phantom liberty is releasing soon.

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#3129856 20-Sep-2023 18:35

I don't know anything about the game, but my neighbour indicated in ran slow on his computer. After a driver update, he now gets an error saying graphics card doesn't meet the minimum requirements.

He has a RTX 2070. Should that be sufficient to at least play the game, even if performance isn't great?

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#3129908 20-Sep-2023 19:24

The RTX 2070 meets the minimum specs but there is a bug going around with windows and a Starfield update.

https://www.pcinvasion.com/how-to-fix-the-graphic-card-doesnt-meet-minimal-requirements-error-in-starfield/

Known issue for a bunch of people, lots of posts on Reddit etc.

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#3129913 20-Sep-2023 19:32

Qazzy03: The RTX 2070 meets the minimum specs but there is a bug going around with windows and a Starfield update.

Great help. Windows 10, but hopefully I'm not going to need to do a full reinstall. As far as I know, the system is kept somewhat up to date.

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#3129919 20-Sep-2023 20:04

The other main suggestions out there for the bug is to verify the game files via Steam, if on steam (I think gamepass can do it too) and making sure GPU drivers are up to date.

So give those ago if the window update fix doesn't work.

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#3130272 21-Sep-2023 19:20

From what I know it uses DirectX agility sdk which need particular versions of windows to run.

Per MS page:

For Windows 10 Version 1909, the revision number should exceed or be equal to .1350 (as in the image above)
For Windows 10 Version 2004 and 20H2, the revision number should exceed or be equal to .789

Later versions are okay.

Edit: I also have a friend on a 2070super who is playing okay, but I have given them the DLSS mod.

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#3130273 21-Sep-2023 19:22

I went over to ensure Windows was fully up to date and was informed it was working again, so no action was required.

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#3131638 25-Sep-2023 12:13

Anyone using Moonlight to play Starfield? Only recently discovered Moonlight. Looking to use it via an Apple TV. Going to try a cheaper game first but would be interested to hear if anyone is already playing Starfield this way.

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#3131641 25-Sep-2023 12:18

When I had my PC with nvidia 1070 GTX I used moonlight and parsec for remote gaming as the PC was located in a rack. Moonlight / Steam on the PC gave me a browseable game list where as Parsec gave a super high quality desktop access for running anything...

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