The system requirements did not lie, a solid-state drive is required.
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Starfield is one of the first major games where even the minimum system requirements indicate that an SSD is required for comfortable gameplay.
This does not mean that the game will not run on HDD, but it is not tested on hard drives, and therefore good performance is not guaranteed.
How showed tests from Rock Paper Shotgun, Starfield can indeed be run on an HDD, but you won’t be able to play comfortably on it.
In addition to stuttering, loading times when playing on an HDD take several times longer than on an SSD. But the problems don’t end there. The hard drive is so unable to handle the game that sounds begin to disappear and animations begin to break. There are also crashes to the desktop.
Shootout while playing on a system with HDD
Lost sound when playing on a system with HDD
Comparison of download durations
Loading a game on Steam to the main menu
SSD: 20 секунд
HDD: 19 секунд
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Loading into saving from the main menu
SSD: 15 seconds HDD: 1 minute and 32 seconds
Loading to Constellation Headquarters
SSD: 3 seconds HDD: 31 seconds
Booting while jumping to another system
SSD: 19 seconds HDD: 40 seconds
Loading during landing on a planet from orbit
SSD: 13 seconds HDD: 24 seconds
Loading during takeoff from the planet
SSD: 22 seconds HDD: 46 seconds
Rock Paper Shotgun journalists consider this not so much a problem with Starfield, but rather a sign that the days of HDDs for games are completely over, and there is no point in running some titles on it.
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The developer believes that the RPG works “excellent”.
