New thunderclap among future Starfield players. Yesterday, AMD and Bethesda announced a partnership to optimize the upcoming blockbuster for the manufacturer’s hardware. If owners of Ryzen processors and Radeon graphics cards rub their hands, those at Nvidia cringe.
Definitely, Starfield has had a hard time avoiding controversy lately. Just this weekend, the internet shook when a small miscommunication from Bethesda led to speculation that no discs will be included in the physical versions of the game — in fact, only the Standard Edition on Xbox will benefit. As the studio barely had time to calm things down, another scandal erupted on social media.
It all started yesterday when AMD announced its partnership with the studio, which aims to achieve the best possible optimization on its own hardware. “We have AMD engineers in our codebase working on FSR2 image processing and upscaling, and the result is amazing”, jubilant even Todd Howard. This optimization will focus primarily on the brand’s latest processors and graphics cards, respectively the Ryzen 7000 and Radeon 7000.
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Gamers are concerned about a lack of DLSS support on Starfield
However, it should be understood that this work carried out by the AMD teams on the FSR2 will benefit all its graphics cards, as well as the Xbox version of the game. A good surprise, to say the least, welcome, when we look at the configuration recommended by Bethesda for the less beefy on PC. Within the Nvidia team, on the other hand, the news did not arouse the same enthusiasm.
“[AMD]intentionally blocks DLSS support in games they sponsor, something Nvidia does not do at all”, laments a gamer on Twitter, while calling for a boycott of the game. However, while this announcement does mean that gamers on AMD hardware will benefit from special care, it does not imply that the Starfield will not be compatible with Nvidia’s DLSS. On Reddit, another user even points out, not without a touch of irony, that if necessary, modders will be happy to add DLSS compatibility once the title is available.
Anyway, and despite Bethesda’s annoying habit of releasing bug-ridden games, it seems rather unlikely that a title of the magnitude – and importance for Microsoft – on Starfield will experience a launch. catastrophic on Nvidia graphics cards. The DLSS support, so well and truly absent at the exit, will most likely not go by the wayside.
Source: PC Gamer