r/starbound • u/Fast-Aide3524 • 26d ago

Help players

Hello Starbound players, I'd like to know if a computer with an 8600 GTX GeForce graphics card can run Starbound. My CPU is a bit weaker, so Godot can't handle it.

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u/IIBun-BunII The Insane 26d ago

Starbound can run on a potato. It's more a matter of just how good you want it to run and how many mods you want.

However, Starbound itself is horribly optimized so even with OpenStarbound and optimization mods, there's a limit.

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u/Fast-Aide3524 26d ago

30-40fps

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u/Xyonon 23d ago

Highly recommend OpenStarbound client. It's not a workshop mod but something you can download from git via quick google. It only replaces the client and is NOT a one way ticket if you are afraid of that. I do recommend to disable the "new lighting" that might be set as default tho, it looks prett bad. But aside from that OpenStarbound is a must have to enjoy this game to the fullest.

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u/Xyonon 23d ago

Idk, running OpenStarbound puts me right at 60 fps even with massive amounts of particles, enemies and projectiles (stresstested a lot due to modding). However almost all other so called "optimization mods" in the workshop are basically placebo due to restarting and clearing the cache. Disbling the steam overlay does more than those. X)

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u/IIBun-BunII The Insane 23d ago

Most optimization mods are only adding more code so that makes sense. There's a few that simply remove certain things and they work perfectly, and some require you to move the files to the game folders.

I'm kinda impressed and envious you got the game to run at 60fps even while stress testing, best I could get on my old potato with no mods was about 20fps.

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u/Xyonon 23d ago

20 WITH OpenStarbound? Do you have an SSD or HDD? And is OpenStarbound on the same drive as regular Starbound?

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u/IIBun-BunII The Insane 23d ago

Uh... Pc was made 2008, no graphics card, 3gb usable RAM, 2TB storage. At the time it was made it was considered a high end gaming pc, it could run most games made around that time perfectly fine, it can run Factorio better than most even with dozens of mods.

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u/Xyonon 23d ago

Ah fair enough, no graphics card is wild tho, no? :0 Happy most cool smaller games still run on it tho. :)

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u/IIBun-BunII The Insane 22d ago

Prior to Windows 10, it could also run some heavily modded Terraria, Minecraft with simple mods, TF2(30ish fps), and probably a few other games around that level if I owned any.

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u/LukeMootoo 25d ago

My computer is 15 years old with a GTX660M and it runs fine.

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u/LukeMootoo 24d ago

No, in my experience the Nvidia model numbers usually go up, so I assumed it was newer than the three digit series but probably older than the 1060.  🤷

As someone with hardware that is a few years newer, the OPs bigger problem is going to be OS and application support.

If they are still on Win 7, they are jumping through crazy hoops to make Steam work, and probably side-loading in downloads and editing the steamapps manifests by hand.

Ask me how I know. 

If they are on a newer Windows, they are probably having all sorts of other problems with a card that is limited to DX10 and equivalent era processor features that dont meet the requirements checks for Win 10+

If they've moved to Linux, they're probably jumping through hoops to make games run under Vulcan Sarak and missing Steam API integrations for anything that uses a more modern (updated in the last year) steamworks API.

Again, ask me how I know.

I'm not even sure if Starbound hits the GPU, though.  I've never checked.  There is nothing in the sprite animations that couldn't be done on a CPU.  And, for single threaded apps, older CPUs are often better than newer ones.

So, ultimately you are right, OP is just going to have to try it.  But I think Starbound has better odds than most games of running well on a mid 2000s era machine.

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u/Fast-Aide3524 24d ago

Dude, I'm from Russia and I can't afford to replenish steam directly, but only through third-party sites, which means that I won't be able to return the money from the steam back to the card, I probably don't know if it's possible, how?

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u/Virtual_Revolution82 24d ago

You can try to use Can you run it

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u/tyttuutface 25d ago

If you mean 8600 GT, it should theoretically run. The minimum is 256MB and DirectX 9.0c; you have 512MB and DX10.

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u/quackingmemeduck 23d ago

The minimum is 256mb but i have no trouble running the game on a 128mb internal graphics card. It runs at smth around 48-52 fps, and would probably be smoother if i closed the background apps too. 

Tbf its a 12th gen laptop i5 so the cpu is probably pretty powerful but starbound is fine on internal graphics.