Alongside today's news about land vehicles and Shattered Space details, Bethesda has officially announced some new Starfield frame rate options for Xbox Series S users. Now matching up to Xbox Series X, Microsoft's baby console will support "30, 40, 60 or an Uncapped frame rate on VRR displays" as part of the game's August update, which arrives today.
These higher FPS options are largely targeting Variable Refresh Rate users, where the VRR tech will smooth out any hiccups when Starfield is under full strain. To better explain the new options, we'll drop Bethesda's bullet points on the new performance features down below:
- Frame Rate Target: You can now choose between 30, 40, 60 or an Uncapped frame rate on VRR displays. If you do not have a VRR display running 120hz, you will still be able to select from 30 or 60. Screen tearing may occur at times when selecting 60 on a non-VRR display.
- Prioritise: You can now prioritise between Visuals and Performance while trying to maintain the frame rate target. If you’re choosing a frame rate target of 60 or above, we recommend changing this to Performance. Prioritising Visuals keeps the highest resolution while maintaining full detail for special effects, lighting, and crowds. Prioritising Performance lowers internal resolution and detail for special effects, lighting, and crowds. Both modes may adjust internal resolution dynamically when scenes or action get heavier as well. When switching between modes, you will see the lighting change briefly as the system catches up to the new mode.
- VSync: You can now toggle between VSync off or on. Choosing off will separate the game frames from the monitor's refresh rate and may result in screen tearing. Toggling On will synchronise the frame rate to the monitor's refresh rate avoiding screen tearing but limiting number of frames.
As we just mentioned, this update is out today, August 20th, so all of you Xbox Series S users can go try out Starfield at higher frame rates - this time in an official capacity!
Excited to test all of this out, Series S users? Tell us if you'll be playing down below.
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That’s a good announcement. I do think that there should be feature parity between both consoles, even if the S is scaled-down, compared to X. Nice.
Well that's awesome though i can't imagine it hitting 60 often.
Thank goodness. If I can get a locked 30 in New Atlantis I'll be very happy.
@Bionic-Spencer the game isn't going to ps so stop dreaming
@DennisReynolds it literally hits 90-120 frames most of the time on a mod on a series s
@GeorgeKal I am not just a PlayStation gamer, I play on Xbox when I feel like it too, so don’t get your knickers in a twist. I’ll be sure to tag you in the announcement of Starfield on PlayStation when the time comes so that you can eat your words. I don’t like exclusives, I hope everyone gets to play everything, but Microsoft are making the changes, not Sony.
@GeorgeKal like indiana jones
update is live now. 18.5 GB
@Scirius Not according to DF and considering the SX struggles with 60 there's no chance the SS is getting those numbers.
@DennisReynolds yeh I played on a series s with mods on a 120 frame tv and it hit 90+ frames quite often..
@Scirius Good chance you were getting a false reading. I had a debate with a guy today who was convinced RDR2 was 60fps on PS5 and he even provided me a pic of his TV telling him that but well we all know PS5 or Series RDR2 is locked sadly at 30fps. DF tried out the mod and they basically advised not to use it.
Great, I've been waiting for this
Unironically, it’s going to be interesting when this is ported to PS5 Pro, imagine if we could only get 4K 60FPS there…
@DarkCvrle Indiana Jones is Disney's ip and it was supposed to be everywhere before Microsoft got Bethesda. We are lucky its a timed exclusive and day one free with gamepass.
@Bionic-Spencer well until that day comes stop dreaming... Ever since ms got Bethesda its all rumours about starfield being day one on ps, after 6 months on ps, after shattered space on ps and so on... Still not on ps. Maybe in 1-2 years? Maybe on the next gen? Who knows but no-one will care when that happens IF it ever happens because its not happening any time soon...
@GeorgeKal wait for forza today
@DarkCvrle well we can only wait and see. I was talking about starfield not forza... I dont think forza horizon 5 will go either unless they also announce horizon 6 at the same time as an exclusive but i am not an insider or anything to know for sure.
The game is bad though?
@DarkCvrle I waited but no forza for ps
@GeorgeKal i was schocked too
@DarkCvrle you shouldn't be
@GeorgeKal if some games go over fine but heavy hitters no way
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