Starfield Premium owners now have access to the game in full and are testing their internet download limits with its massive 120 GB file size, but a few hopeful gamers are going to have to wait regardless of how much they paid in advance. Intel Arc GPUs currently cannot play Starfield, with varying symptoms ranging from the game not starting to it taking 30-40 minutes before presenting the player with a jumbled cacophany of texture mayhem. Users report that the executable does launch in the background, and that during the half-hour that it’s visible in Task Manager it can consume as much as 30 GB of system memory, before either crashing or finally presenting the game menu. If one does manage to get to anything resembling gameplay, their time is short as the game will crash to desktop within only a few minutes.

    • DreamySweet
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      61 year ago

      It’s when they let you pay more to play on release day instead of having to wait a few days like a peasant.

      • geosocoOP
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        21 year ago

        In this case, it’s closer to paying to beta test.

        • @mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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          51 year ago

          We already had that - it’s called “early access.” But people gunked that up, so they have to roll along the euphemism treadmill, and make a fancier name for paying extra to get an incomplete game.

          “Premature installation” didn’t test well.