Starfield Tweaking Guide for PC Users – Mods and Tweaks

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Following the wave of highly positive critic reviews, the new RPG by Bethesda Game Studios has shown a strong debut on Steam with 245K concurrent users measured today, and that's just with owners of the Starfield Premium Edition (priced at $100) counted until the official launch set for September 6th.

BGS games have historically fueled the interest of modders on PC, and Starfield is no different. Even if the official modding tools will only be released in a few months, that didn't stop the community from coming up with all sorts of tweaks and proto-mods to improve the experience in various ways. We've collected the most impactful of these community-made enhancements below.

While Starfield isn't prone to the stuttering encountered in several recently published PC games, it is still heavy due to its very nature. As such, further optimization of its performance is worth seeking wherever possible.

There have been reports that manually enabling Resizable BAR for NVIDIA GeForce GPUs may lead to a small performance improvement, but we haven't been able to verify that. If you wish to try, here's the general guide to the whole process.

For those stuck with a configuration near the minimum requirements, Bulwarkhd crafted a Performance Texture Pack that lowers the standard texture resolution from 2K to 1K or even to 0.5K, decreasing the consumption of VRAM.

To install, copy the mod's Data folder into your Documents\My Games\Starfield folder, and make sure StarfieldCustom.ini (in the same folder; create it if you don't have it already) includes the following strings:

[Archive]
bInvalidateOlderFiles=1
sResourceDataDirsFinal=

If you wish to squeeze even more frames out of your PC, as covered in a recent post, Nexus Mods user Erok has