YouTube channel Compusemble has investigated Starfield’s file I/O and the impression on general sport efficiency and located hyperlinks to obvious stuttering.
It appears that evidently some customers are going through traversal stuttering when Starfield hundreds property for brand spanking new sport areas, which occurs whatever the chosen graphics preset, that means it’s unavoidable – at the very least with out mods or patches. The problem is principally seen in dense areas comparable to cities.
Typically, stuttering is said to excessive CPU utilization brought on by shader compilation or just low CPU efficiency, however with regards to Starfield, at the very least on this occasion, the issues seem like coming from excessive SSD utilisation.
For reference, Compusemble examined the sport on a system comprised of a Ryzen 7 7700X, an RX 6950 XT, 32GB of DDR5, and Essential’s T700 Gen 5 SSD working Home windows 11. A PC undoubtedly able to working the sport even at excessive settings. Even with a slower Ryzen 5 7600X CPU, I didn’t spot any game-breaking stuttering, hopefully, it stays so.
In line with Compusemble’s testing, the SSD reaches 100 per cent utilisation although it solely delivers about 850MB/s of learn pace, with a median of 20MB/s. 20MB/s whereas absolutely utilising the drive is low to say the least, much more when the SSD in query is likely one of the quickest obtainable, that means the sport is both studying in small block sizes or at a low queue depth.
As you may see in our overview, when requesting small recordsdata (4K Q1) the T700 – like its opponents – struggles rather a lot, attaining solely 87MB/s learn. In distinction, utilizing giant recordsdata this drive can stretch its legs and ship as much as 12,409MB/s – pace could change relying on the drive’s authentic capability and remaining house.
It goes with out saying that extra testing is required, so, if you wish to confirm this principle for your self, notice that you’ll want to set HWINFO64’s polling charge to 20ms to ensure that the app to refresh rapidly sufficient to detect these modifications in SSD utilisation.
In any case, with all of the reward Starfield acquired from reviewers, it will be a disgrace if we begin getting stuttering complaints now. Fingers crossed it’s only a small bug.
