Starfield Best Settings Guide

Oct 10, 2023

Bethesda’s Starfield is here and it’s one of the most ambitious games ever crafted. If you want the best gameplay experience visually for the sci-fi action-RPG, MP1st is here to help with our Starfield best settings guide.

Not only does this compare the settings for the PC version and what’s ideal, we also list down the ones needed for Steam Deck, Xbox, controllers and more.

Best Display and Graphics Settings (PC) for Starfield – Ultra

There are no framerate options here, though we recommend going into your GPU control panel and system locking it there to whatever your monitor supports. 60 FPS will run smoothly on high-end PCs, though they can push 120 FPS.

Those using high end graphic cards such as the RTX 4000 series, or the AMD 7900 series, you should be able to run the game at full 4K and everything on ultra. We recommend playing around with the FSR2 slider if you have any performance issues before dropping down some of the options, though if there are some, toy with shadows and reflections first.

Best Display and Graphics Settings (PC) for Starfield – High

A 3080/3090 card equipped with a good CPU that doesn’t bottleneck it should be easy sailing under the high options if you want 60 FPS. However, for resolution we recommend going for 1440P rather than 4K. 4K is still possible, but you’d be looking at dropping some of these settings to medium to achieve optimal performance.

Best Display and Graphics Settings (PC) for Starfield – Low

Those meeting the minimum requirements, or just falling a little under are going to want to play this with everything set to low, and at 1080P. The experience is very playable, though a the cost of visuals, but having FSR2 enabled does help with image sharpening. You can go higher in graphic options, but at that point you may want to lock your performance to 30 FPS, rather than 60 FPS.

Best Display and Graphics Settings (Steam Deck) for Starfield

Everything should be set to low here since the Steam Deck is below the minimum requirement. While we haven’t tested ourselves, it is to our understanding you’ll need to be updated to the current AMD driver, which requires side loading Windows on the Steam Deck. Bethesda does seem to be working on trying to make it compatible, but if you are able to get it running, you may want to hold off for some community mods to make it run better. Don’t expect 60 FPS.

Best Display and Graphics Settings (Xbox) for Starfield

There are not a whole lot of options to tinker around here, so I say keep most of it at default. Motion blur should remain on, since the game runs at 30 FPS, the motion blur will help smooth it out better.

More graphic options for other builds coming soon…

Starfield Best Interface Settings

These can mostly stay the same, but you can turn everything off if you want the most immersive options. Just be aware this includes objective waypoints as they do not have their own option.

Starfield Best Audio Settings

Most options can stay the same here also, though we did notice that the music can at times, drown out the dialogue, so you might want to turn that down and raise voices. I found 50% of the music to be perfect, loud enough to hear clearly but low enough where all other audio comes in good.

Starfield Best Controls Settings

The only thing I can recommend under this setting is to invert the flight controls. Everything else is user preference, though the crosshair option might be a big one for some.

Starfield Best Gameplay Settings

Make sure all these options are toggled on, as they will create autosaves in case anything breaks.

Starfield Best Accessibility Settings

Here I made sure item rotation hold and drag was set to hold well and drag. The other option is to click, letting you rotate an item until you click again. Not a fan of that on, but it’s there if you want. All subtitle options are turned on, and for those who may find the text to be too small, there is a large font option here.

That’s really it for Starfield, as there aren’t a lot of options to really play around with. We’ll be adding more build-specific settings shortly though, so if these configurations don’t work for you, stay tuned as well have plenty more!