Starfield is about to receive a cosmic boost thanks to an upcoming patch entering Steam Beta next week, which will finally include the long-awaited official support for Nvidia's Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) tech.
In a new post on X/Twitter, Bethesda Game Studios confirmed that the studio has been hard at work on post-launch updates for Starfield. The next one will launch as a beta, available exclusively to Steam users before it launches more widely to all PC players, in addition to Xbox Series X/S users.
We've been hard at work on @StarfieldGame updates and will be putting our next one into Steam Beta next week.
This update will feature Nvidia DLSS support with frame generation, display and HDR controls for supported systems, and other optimizations and improvements. You'll be…
Bethesda confirmed that this next update will finally roll out official support for Nvidia DLSS in addition to HDR controls, along with some other optimizations and improvements. The biggest feature rolling out into this update, of course, is the inclusion of DLSS. In a separate post, Bethesda also revealed that it will add support for FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 in a future update.
While Bethesda was cagey about whether or not Starfield would support DLSS at launch after it was revealed that AMD was the "exclusive PC partner for Starfield." The rumors and speculation later turned out to be true as Starfield only supported two upscaling options: FSR 2 and FidelityFX Contrast Adaptive Sharpening (CAS).
DLSS quickly became one of, if not the most requested feature on PC. Although modders were quick to add DLSS into Starfield, one modder received backlash after it was revealed they paywalled a more advanced Starfield DLSS 3 mod accessible to
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