The arrival of Starfield caused a great deal of controversy because, as our regular readers will remember, It was a launch sponsored by AMD which arrived without NVIDIA DLSS or Intel XeSS support and was so poorly optimized that it performed terribly on non-Radeon graphics cards.

AMD initially did not comment on the possible forced exclusivity of FSR technology in Starfield, but eventually ended up saying there was no obligation Bethesda’s contractors and that they could implement support for other technologies if they wanted to. This made us wonder why they included FSR when in the end supporting other scaling and image reconstruction technologies requires minimal effort once one is present.

Controversy aside, the important thing is that Bethesda finally seems to have realized their mistake and the rejection this practice has caused, and has confirmed that an update will be coming to Starfield within the week that will introduce support for NVIDIA DLSS technology with image generation. This technology is exclusive to GeForce RTX 40 graphics cards, but GeForce RTX 30 and RTX 20 users will be able to activate DLSS Super Resolution.

Bethesda also confirmed it work is underway to add AMD FSR 3 support with Fluid Motion Frames in the future, which means that users of different graphics cards will have access to this AMD alternative to the generation of NVIDIA frames. This is good news, because third-party mods that allow you to activate frame generation do not offer a completely optimal experience and produce some graphical errors.

With frame generation It is possible to significantly improve the smoothness of games. When used correctly, the experience is greatly improved, as interstitial frames generated exclusively by the GPU are introduced, which reduces the problems arising from bottlenecks, and the title can have, for example, from 50 to 90 FPS. I have thoroughly tested it with various NVIDIA graphics cards and can confirm that it is a technology that means a real turning point.

AMD’s alternative is still in beta and I’ve been able to confirm that it has some important flaws in its current state, but it’s a step in the right direction from Sunnyvale and is promising for its extensive support and no requirement for specialized hardware.