Often, they become literally quieter, as diagetic sound effects like wind, footsteps, or booster back blasts cut out or play out of sync. Here's one I suffered earlier: Do not adjust your set. Temporary freezes are even more common, and while they might not send you to back to desktop in a defeated heap, they do render gunfights utterly unplayable. By contrast, on an HDD it crashed twice during a single five-minute attempt at recording some footage for Liam.

I played for hours on both my test PC’s SSD and the stock SSD of a Steam Deck before trying an HDD, and in both cases, Starfield didn't crash once. The collapse in stability is the most naturally game-ruining of these behaviours. Also, it has rubbish load times and texture pop-in. In addition to the largely benign, often hilarious bugs you get on an SSD, HDD!Starfield is riddled with skipping audio, animation failures, stuttering, hanging, crashing, the lot. On a hard drive, it’s a completely different game, which is to say its structual integrity is snapped to bits like the chocolate on a freshly bitten Magnum. Not Starfield per se, which is mostly good – when it’s running off an SSD. Manage cookie settings Was Starfield worth the wait? Liam and Alice B discuss this question - and more - in the video above. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.

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