Starfield will be optimized for AMD hardware and PC gamers are furious

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Bethesda has announced that AMD is its exclusive partner for Starfield on PC — a move that has caused controversy in the PC gaming scene online. The title is scheduled for a 6 September launch. 

Starfieldis one of the biggest upcoming games of the year with the hotly anticipated open-world space exploration RPG awaited for years now. Announced via AMD's YouTube channel, the latest Bethesda-developed epic is made with some of Team Red's best graphics cards in mind which has Nvidia supporters concerned. 

The performance of Starfield has been controversial as the game has been confirmed to be running at 30fps on the Xbox Series X with no performance mode to speak of at release. Considering that Microsoft's current-generation console runs on AMD's RDNA 2 architecture, the fears that some PC gamers have is not entirely unfounded. Starfield's AMD exclusively means that there could be no support for DLSS 3 leading to struggling performance from Nvidia graphics cards and drivers. 

The PC system requirements for Starfield are fairly taxing for a title that's running on an engine as old as the Creation Engine 2, which made its debut with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4. The official Steam listing page sites recommended hardware of an AMD Ryzen 5 3600X / Intel Core i5-10600K paired with an AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT / Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080, so we're talking a fairly up-to-date machine all around here. 

The proposed lack of DLSS 3 support, which is exclusive to the Ada series of graphics cards such as the RTX 4090 and RTX 4080, means the title could be entirely reliant on Team Red's A.I. upscaling technology. AMD's FSR is open-source and can be used across all recent AMD Radeon graphics cards. The trade-off, however, is that