FSR 2 Replacer With DLSS or XeSS Is Now The Most Popular Mod For Starfield With Over 200K Downloads

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It's been just a few days since the Starfield FSR 2 replacer with DLSS or XeSS mod was released & it's already the most downloaded at NexusMods.

We know that Starfield, being an official AMD-partnered title, officially comes with FSR 2 support. But despite that, modders such as PureDark, were able to release the FSR 2 replacer with DLSS or XeSS mod as soon as the game became available to owners of the Premium Edition in the early-access period.

Now it's been at least 5 days since the release of the mod and it has already raked in 230K total downloads and 150K unique downloads (as of 5th September) on NexusMods and is also the highest-rated mod for the game yet only to be followed by the Starfield Performance Optimizations mod which has around half the downloads at 125K.

The number of downloads for the FSR upscaler replacer with DLSS or XeSS mod is also interesting as it almost matches the peak player count of 250K that the game has currently amassed. That number alone is very impressive for a title that's still in early access and we can expect it to go much higher when the game is officially available to all users tomorrow. It is likely that after the initial launch day, the number of downloads for the mods will go up even further as more users try them out.

In our comparisons, we saw that AMD's FSR 2 produced a slight shimmering effect in Starfield but that was entirely eliminated when running DLSS or even XeSS. Intel's XeSS and NVIDIA's DLSS turn out to offer the best image quality with XeSS even offering slightly better results as DLSS is shown to dim out the lights in certain sections though that could just be the differences within the AI training capabilities of both technologies. Meanwhile, all upscaling technologies