2023-08-18 16:39:02
This is a big disappointment for owners of Nvidia graphics cards who want to play Starfield. By analyzing the preload files, a player discovered that the Bethesda game will not offer support for DLSS, the famous upscaling technology.
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At the end of June, Bethesda announced that Starfield would be optimized for AMD hardware on PC, causing panic among users of Nvidia graphics cards. The object of their fear seems to be confirmed: Starfield will not offer DLSS support. Or at least not at launch, according to the findings of a dataminer on Twitter (X).
Sebastian Castellanos has been sifting through the game files now that Starfield preloads have begun on Xbox X/S, as well as PC. The dataminer has posted a photo of the various files and folders in the game: he claims that there is no sign of a .dll file referring to other technologies ofupscaling than AMD’s FSR 2.
So following combing through Starfield preload files on PC, I don’t see any sign of it supporting DLSS/XeSS. If true I think this would generate a lot of backlash for Bethesda & AMD (due to their refusal to confirm whether they block rival GPU vendor techs in their sponsored games). pic.twitter.com/U67On3x6Kt
— Sebastian Castellanos (@Sebasti66855537) August 18, 2023
Starfield will not be entitled to Nvidia’s DLSS at release
Unless it’s a bad joke to trick gamers into buying AMD graphics cards before the game is released, buying the latest generation of Nvidia graphics cards to play Starfield becomes pretty much pointless. Maybe Bethesda will spare us a day one patch to add DLSS, but if that was the case, Nvidia would probably have communicated regarding it already.
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It should be noted that FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0 (FSR 2) is a similar upscaling technology that will work on graphics cards from all vendors. So all AMD, Nvidia and even Intel GPUs will support it. It’s already good. But for RTX 4000 owners, this remains a great disappointment, since the latest generation of green graphics cards do not bring much in terms of hardware, except for better DLSS integration.
No doubt the modding community will find a solution, as it always does when a completely buggy Bethesda game comes out. One of them has already promised to integrate DLSS 3 support into the game, even before the September 6 release. However, modders are not professionals and will never achieve the quality of an implementation made by the developers themselves.
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