Starfield's big DLSS update is now available in Steam beta

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As promised, Starfield's big DLSS update is now live in beta testing on Steam, which means Nvidia owners can finally take advantage of the higher frame rates their GPUs are capable of.

It seemed weird that Starfield did not support DLSS at launch, given that more than 80% of PC gamers have Nvidia graphics cards in their rigs (according to the most recent Steam hardware survey). Fingers were pointed at Bethesda's partnership with AMD on the game, although AMD later said that the developer could throw in DLSS support anytime it wanted. Modders picked up the torch, but even so it was welcome news when Bethesda confirmed last week that official support for Nvidia hardware was on the way.

Now it's here, albeit in a pre-release state. Today's update enables owners of compatible Nvidia cards to take advantage of DLSS Super Resolution, Deep Learning Anti-aliasing (DLAA), Nvidia Reflex Low Latency, and DLSS Frame generation. You'll need to have Vsync switched off to see any advantage from DLSS Frame Generation right now, but Bethesda said that will be made an automatic adjustment in a future update.

It is important to note that this beta is not actually an update, but an entirely separate build of the game. This means that you'll be able to continue playing from where you left off, but any saves made in the beta branch will not be compatible with the live version until the update is fully live. That shouldn't be an issue as long as you have space for two separate Starfield installs, but it could potentially become a headache if the beta turns out to have some catastrophic bug that pops up four hours in. Hey, there's a reason they call it a beta test.

If that doesn't put you off and you want to give this thing a rip before it goes