Starfield Is Broken On Intel Arc GPUs, a Fix is coming Next Week.

[John Elden Ring]

Intel has acknowledged that its Arc Alchemist GPUs, some of the best graphics cards, are having severe issues running Bethesda's new space RPG Starfield — precisely trouble launching the game. According to Intel, a driver update will be ready for the game's release next week on September 5 to fix these issues. Still, sadly, this means there won't be any immediate support during the remainder of Starfield's early access period.

Problems running Starfield on Arc graphics cards are as bad as it gets. One problem is that Intel has still not released a game-ready driver update supporting Starfield — unlike Nvidia and AMD. Even worse, according to several responses on Intel's post, the game won't even start on current Arc drivers, making the game completely unplayable on Intel's discrete GPUs.

This wouldn't be the first time something like this happened. Intel had encountered this problem a few times with previous game releases where its game-ready drivers broke at the very last minute when the game released a launch-day patch to iron out bugs and optimize the game. This would make sense in Starfield's case because a massive 15GB patch went live a few days ago, right before the game's release, which could have broken Intel's driver update it was potentially working on.