Starfield launch was accompanied by a caused controversy for three main reasons: the apparent exclusivity signed with AMD that it would only use FSR, the significant number of bugs it presented, and the poor optimization it suffered in general, even if it mainly affected NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards.

Finally, AMD came forward to deny the exclusivity, and it was recently confirmed that Starfield will receive a major update that would improve performance and introduce NVIDIA DLSS support, including Super resolution and image generation. This update is now available in beta and the first performance data we have is very positive.

General Starfield better performance with GeForce RTX graphics cardswhich seemed complicated, since in theory this game was optimized for the specifics of the RDNA 3 architecture. With this update, the GeForce RTX 4090 outperforms the Radeon RX 7900 XTX by 23%, a noticeable difference since the game was launched. it barely surpassed it by 8%.

Looking at it, it’s obvious that Bethesda didn’t do their homework when optimizing the game for NVIDIA graphics cards, and that It could have arrived in much better condition upon release if a little more thought had been put into it.. Those of you who read us regularly will already know that I really liked Starfield for all its flaws, but in the end I decided to shelve it until optimization and performance improved.

In terms of CPU-level performance, the tests that have been performed CapFrameX confirm it The Ryzen 9 7950X3D is the one that offers the best performance, followed by the Intel Core i9-13900K, with which it has a minimal difference. This update can be tested in the beta channel now, but any progress you make will be lost once it leaves the beta, so the best thing at this point is to wait a while and enjoy it in the final version.

If everything goes according to plan and if there are no bugs or problems of any kind, this update will be the final version will arrive on the general channel at the end of this month. We don’t have details on when Starfield will implement AMD’s Fluid Motion Frames technology, but given that it already supports Frame Generation, it shouldn’t be long before it’s implemented.