Starfield Will Run at a Locked 30FPS on Both Xbox Series Consoles; Smoothest Game Studio Has Ever Launched

Starfield 30FPS Xbox

Wondering what frame rate Starfield will be in? Well, wonder no more, as Bethesda has confirmed that Starfield runs at 30FPS on both the Xbox Series X and S.

Speaking to IGN, Todd Howard, Bethesda’s executive producer, revealed that Starfield would be running at a locked 30FPS on Xbox Series consoles. For resolution, the Xbox Series X will run at 4K, while the Series S will run at 1440P.

“I think it’ll come as no surprise, given our previous games, what we go for,” Howard said to IGN. “Always these huge, open worlds, fully dynamic, hyper detail where anything can happen. And we do want to do that. It’s 4K in the X. It’s 1440 on the S. We do lock it at 30, because we want that fidelity, we want all that stuff. We don’t want to sacrifice any of it.

He goes on to say that while they were able to get it running higher than that, even at 60 at times, they wanted “consistency” throughout the experience, therefore, opted for a locked 30FPS for the smoothest, most consistent experience the studio has ever launched.

“And we don’t ever want to sacrifice that experience that makes our games feel really, really special. So it feels great. We’re really happy with how it feels even in the heat of battle. And we need that headroom because in our games, really anything can happen.”

There are no comments on the PC version’s performance, though seeing that it is PC, we do expect to see options to run the title higher than 60FPS. We’ll have more on that as we inch closer to the September 6 launch. For now, you can feast your eyes on the latest Starfield gameplay deep dive.

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