Na if you read through the shit it is GPU bound. So why is my cpu doing fuck all then?
starfield cpu or gpu intensive - Google Search
Or did you goggle it and it’s gospel LMAO Can only help those willing to help themselves 
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Google, plus the fact that my CPU is hitting 85C+ while my GPU is maxing out at 60C. Which is an anomaly, compared to even other CPU intensive games. Usually my CPU maxes out at 65C.
It’s ok though, I’m not asking for help 
I can fix my stuff myself.
It will baulk your CPU if you are short on ram or video memory coz that makes your CPU do double work. Starfield sits at 11GB on my settings in game, so if you got less than 16GB of ram, oh I dunno that might be why. Older gen 1080 will also throw more load on your cpu. But eh fuckit what do I know, too busy getting farm fresh.
try a decent cooler and msi afterburner to start with and clean all the frog hair out of your shit. Lazy ass
Oi, I dusted it last night because I was worried about exactly that! 
Changed my thermal paste and stuff too.
Might pick up a better cooler a little ways down the line though, not gonna lie. Been using my stock one for a half decade, and while it’s fantastic for such a low profile unit, it has room to improve.
…Gotta get my .22 first though. More interested in exploring outside than space right now 
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Noctua hands down, few bucks extra dropped mine 30c avg so it does not thermal throttle. 4Ghz all day.
You kinda need a compressed air gun to really clean them out and filters all over your case especially if you have pets. Choke up in one week. Depending if it’s positive or negative airflow. Even so, they choke up quick.
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Oh yeah, positive air pressure all the way. Only my front is intake, and it’s filtered.
Still gotta clean the thing every 2 weeks, because not only stoner smoke, and cat fur. But like…long lady hair too. It was actually extracting a meter long hair from one of my fans that inspired the positive pressure environment. Didn’t want to deal with that again
In short your CPU is thermal throttling at that 85c temp and dropping the clock speeds. Remedy that, you can’t overide it built in Intel thing. Clean it or your repaste job is shit. Whack a decent fan on there
the stock ones are garbage.
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Oh right, there’s the problem right there 
Another system diagnosed for free 
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100% see what you saying, but im a sucker for the ease of a console. Agreed could likely buy a decent rig for the cost of both an xbox and ps5. I have just bought one of each since the ps3 era.
I dont want to do the stuff around of getting a game up and running. I already get the shits when a new games takes 15min to download just to then need to download a patch of xxgb. Gone are the days you slap a disk in and it just works.
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Console does win at plug and play, it is easy. But I love my pc. The battlefield series has been my “time for an upgrade” yardstick. I spend as much as I can afford/justify when upgrading, and find that part lasts around 5-7 years. Sure it is 2-3 years of gaming bliss and a year of “time for an upgrade” but I reckon it works out cheaper than console in the long run.
Upgrading a CPU/motherboard/RAM is usually about the cost of a console, and GPU is similar, though I seem to get about the same time out of each as a console cycle.
But that’s double console cost I hear you say? Maybe… but my games are cheaper as there are many sources competing for my dollars for the game on pc. Also all the other things I use it for.
To me it makes sense, and I love it. But I do get why people enjoy consoles. But, I can never trade my mouse and keyboard for a controller… though I own one and use it for some games… best of all worlds is where pc ownership is at.
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I use the: when money replaces dust in my wallet yardstick
Saw my first one last week, nearly stepped on a 4ft black by the stockyards. By the time I unlocked the 12g, yea well until next time buddy.
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Fellow Starfieldians 
We used to get those little bastards in the garden beds next to the verandah when we lived at the back of Glass House Mountains pretty regularly… We had a paddock full of longhorns next to us, a pineapple farm at the back and a dam on our property, perfect for them, frog city.
Only good thing about those guys was they’re usually as timid af and bugger off and I’m told they like to feed on juvenile browns. Whenever the blacks were in residence we’d never see any browns. Plenty of pythons, tree snakes and keelbacks though, so they musn’t be on their preferred diet.
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I only get the red belly blacks or the huge browns here, and their enemy the sleepy lizard. Bumped in to a black wrapped around a sleepy when opening a gate one day, took a minute to realize what was going on but when the sleepy was casually eating chunks out of the snake body I figured out what the soccerball of animals was doing
I used to reckon a home wasn’t complete without a few carpets in the ceiling to keep the rats away.
Changed my mind about that when we had to drag one big mother of a carpet python off my sister-in-law’s fox terrier 
then a while later that little dog came running up from the dam with a red belly in his mouth… it bit him on the face before we could do anything. He was always a bit weird after that. Small dogs and big snakes, not good bedfellows. 
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Guy that built a 20M shed for me here had a terrier. Early Febuary few years ago so we started at dawn and knocked off around 2pm each day as the temps hit 44c +.
So we knocked off and crack a beer on my back lawn under the shade have a rest and a chat. Nekminnit a 5ft brown started slivering across the lawn, he set his terrier on to it. Far out I never seen anything like it. I was like oh no it’ll bite your dog, go own get it!
F me there was bit’s of brown snake going everywhere, just absolutely shredded it in 30 seconds. I was only half way through my first beer too so it wasn’t that.
I’ll never forget it. Mike the shed builder passed on last year.
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Terrier’s earn their keep, man.
One we had years ago when we were living in the forestry near Beerwah was a champion rat catcher… never saw her up against a snake but I wouldn’t want to be the snake she decided to take on…
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Many farmers I know all have little Fox Terriers along with their Sheep/Cattle Dog breeds for these same reasons.
Amazing to see them go after Rats/Snakes in the sheds and around the homestead, and awesome for getting into the tunnels flushing out rabbit burrows 
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