According to Neowin , AMD announced a partnership with Bethesda Studios earlier this year, specifically for the highly anticipated space RPG Starfield . Recently, a leak from the game's preload files revealed that the PC version will not support Nvidia's DLSS or Intel's XeSS technology. It appears that Starfield will only support AMD's FSR graphics upscaling technology, at least during its initial launch.

However, one player has been preparing a DLSS mod since the first day the game entered early access. This new mod allows DLSS technology to replace AMD's FSR, bringing improved image quality to gamers using Nvidia graphics cards.

Created by modder PureDark, the 'Starfield Upscaler' mod allows players to enable the DLSS option in the graphics settings instead of AMD FSR. To install, users need to extract the mod files into the Starfield folder and add some necessary DLL files. When the mod is enabled, players will get a menu to adjust DLSS settings when pressing the End button in the game.

With AMD being the exclusive partner of Starfield , this explains the default integration of FSR 2.0 in the game. However, if Bethesda wishes, AMD's head of game marketing, Frank Azor, has expressed openness to adding DLSS support in a future update to the game.

Meanwhile, the 'Starfield Upscaler' mod claims to give around 75% of PC gamers with Nvidia graphics cards access to dedicated AI-powered graphics upscaling. According to PC Gamer, the mod is working flawlessly.

In other news, AMD announced the third version of its FSR graphics technology at Gamescom 2023. FSR 3 Frame Generation is supposed to help PC and console games achieve very high frame rates. The technology is expected to be added to Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum via September patches. But Starfield currently supports the older FSR 2.0.