JEMC said:
ODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS Starfield has already got a 'potato mode' mod to help you run it on machines from 1969
https://www.pcgamer.com/starfield-has-already-got-a-potato-mode-mod-to-help-you-run-it-on-machines-from-1969/
Earlier this year, I got myself a treat. To replace my decrepit GTX 1080 Ti—the one that meant I occasionally had to turn my entire PC upside down—I bought an RTX 4080 the size of a loaf of bread. My rays were traced, my SS was DL'd, and all it required was a power draw roughly the size of Turkmenistan's.
Turns out I needn't have bothered, though, because the biggest game of the moment has now gotten a mod that would, notionally, let it run on something far weaker. Starfield has got its very own potato mode mod, crunching its textures down to 128 bits and saving you all that precious, precious VRAM you have on your, I don't know, 3DFX Voodoo 3.
>> The article only has one screenshot, but you can imagine how will the game look. |
Got excited I might have been able to run it on my 3dfx voodoo system.
But the mod doesn't really reduce/remove/alter any of the shaders and other features of the game, just destroys the textures for low-VRAM GPU's... It's definitely not like the Oblivion/fallout 3 mod to allow it to run on a Geforce 3. (Original Xbox equivalent hardware)
