Starfield Modder Has Already Added Support For DLSS2 And XeSS

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Starfield has now received DLSS support, but not from Bethesda.

You can probably already guess where I am going with this. As verified by Okami13 on Twitter, PureDark has published the mod to add DLSS support to Starfield over at NexusMods.

When PureDark originally announced his plans to add support, it was welcomed by the community. PureDark was already known for adding upscaler support for various GPUs and the upscaler technologies that they are compatible with. He decided to work on this upscaler after Bethesda announced that AMD was the official PC partner for Starfield. The way that announcement was framed made it unclear if Bethesda was going to work on support for Nvidia and Intel technologies alongside AMD’s.

We still don’t know if Bethesda has plans to support Nvidia and Intel for Starfield, but there’s an upside to this story. PureDark was himself given a review copy of Starfield, something we reported on all the way back in August 21, 2023. It’s likely that PureDark received his copy even earlier than August 21, but whatever the case may be, Bethesda’s choice gave PureDark ample time to work on his mod.

And so here we are. If you look at the NexusMods page for the upscaler mod, PureDark has shared a few surprises. This mod is described as a “Plugin to replace FSR2 with DLSS/XeSS in Starfield. This version only support DLSS2 and not DLSS3.”

This mod was apparently developed so that it can work with a separate mod called Upscaler Base Plugin, but that shouldn’t be necessary. If you want to use this on your computer, you need to turn on FSR2. That will make it possible to replace FSR2 in the game with DLSS 2 or XeSS.

PureDark’s choices for upscaler support are practical and very community friendly. Most PC gamers