AMD has announced a partnership with Bethesda and Starfield. However, some players fear that this is not a good idea. A conflict is brewing in the background.
AMD has partnered with Bethesda and Starfield. Together they want to further develop the long-awaited game. Bethesda’s Todd Howard confirmed that “AMD engineers are working on FSR2 image processing and upscaling in our code base and it looks incredible.” Graphics cards” should be optimized.
But many gamers are rather skeptical about the idea. Because they fear that certain features like DLSS will no longer come to Starfield. Because in the background there is a rumor that AMD should prohibit installing DLSS in certain games. This is reported by the online magazine TheVerge.
AMD’s current “politics” are causing trouble among gamers
Following the announcement, many are wondering if this now means DLSS won’t be coming to Starfield. DLSS is an upscaling technology. Put simply, games are rendered in low resolution and then upscaled to the correct resolution. This brings significantly more performance and lets games run better. However, many believe that DLSS is a reason why developers don’t really optimize their games.
AMD now offers an alternative to DLSS with FSR 2.0, but many still consider Nvidia’s DLSS to be the better option. DLSS is exclusive to Nvidia graphics cards, while FSR works with AMD, Intel, and Nvidia graphics cards.
Many gamers now believe that blocking other technologies such as DLSS (Nvidia) and XeSS (Intel) is a deliberate tactic by AMD. At least that’s what the British magazine PCGamer reports: AMD had so far neither denied nor confirmed the allegations. However, we are in contact with the developers and AMD and are asking about this.
Why do many require DLSS? For many players, DLSS is still considered a kind of “savior” because it allows you to play catastrophically optimized games reasonably smoothly. Even the new Star Wars: Jedi Survivor couldn’t be played properly with an RTX 3090.
The majority of gamers are using Nvidia graphics cards
The majority of gamers use an Nvidia graphics card. If you take a look at the current survey values on Steam, then 76% of all survey participants play with an Nvidia GPU.
However, the two “winners” are a GeForce GTX 1650 and a GeForce GTX 1060 – both graphics cards that do not support DLSS. Only the third GPU, the GeForce RTX 3060, then offers active support for DLSS.
Despite all the doubts, there could at least be some good news. If AMD really supports the development of Starfield and FSR 2.0, then Xbox players could also benefit from it in the long term:
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