Starfield's Next Update Suggests Promising Performance Uplift
Starfield's next update has been made available in a beta test on Steam ahead of its wide release and the early takeaways are promising.
The patch adds official DLSS support to the game, a feature only previously available through unofficial mods, but also includes a number of optimizations to the game’s performance on the CPU and GPU side that early testing suggest may lead to significant performance uplifts even before DLSS is factored into the equation.
One video by YouTube creator MxBenchmarkPC shows a 30% performance uplift (pre-DLSS) in the CPU limited benchmark and gains of around 10% in GPU limited scenarios. DLSS with Frame Generation improves things even further.
Official DLSS support comes as welcome news after it was revealed the game wouldn’t support the feature at launch following the announcement of AMD asStarfield’s exclusive PC partner. Modders filled the gap, but even this resulted in controversy around one modder’s insistence on including DRM in the paid version of their DLSS mod that included Frame Generation.
The non-DLSS related optimizations are sure to be a pleasant surprise to fans looking to explore Bethesda’s gigantic universe unhampered by performance woes.
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