Starfield PC's New Patch: Massive CPU/GPU Perf Boosts, Official DLSS Support

Starfield launched in a baffling state on PC, with no support for DLSS, frame generation and highly questionable performance on Nvidia graphics hardware. A new patch is currently in beta and it's fair to say that it's transformative. The new HDR features disappoint, but with official DLSS and frame-gen support and genuinely impressive boosts to CPU and GPU performance, this patch moves Starfield one step closer to delivering everything it should on PC.

00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:31 User Experience, DLSS, HDR
00:05:04 CPU Performance Improvements
00:08:35 GPU Performance Improvements
00:11:36 Conclusion

[clshortfuse_]

Thanks for checking our work on the Luma mod! I'm happy to see the hard work of our team being recognized. Luma also enhances the visuals and adds more options for SDR users as well. (That's more a note for others here.)

Excellent coverage, Alex, and keep up the great work, DF!

[ScyrousFX]

Woah, what a surprise from Todd Howard! I guess most people didn’t need to upgrade their PC after all. Crazy what good a bit of optimization can do, huh?

[TwinOpinion]

I wasn't expecting to see such major improvements. That launch code wasn't ready for primetime.

[Compusemble]

Good work from Bethesda, but a lot of this should have been in there at launch. Unfortunately, I don't think the disk I/O bottleneck will ever be fixed.

[nomercy]

It's funny how the AMD sponsored title gets DLSS3 frame gen before FSR3 frame gen.

[jaroslavmrazek]

"Our game is optimized, you just might need a better PC" Todd Howard 2023

[lancaster]

Their procedural generation doesn't work on bases though as it pretty much spawns the same base with the same enemies in the same places with no change in layout or spawn points.. and that is very old very quickly indeed.

[pgr]

Holy cow the uplift for people with 8 core CPUs and Nvidia GPUs is going to be massive. Having one or the other means gains but if you have this configuration it'll be like a different game performance wise.

[averagejackmedia]

Alternate Title: How to call Todd Howard a liar in the most professional way possible.

[monkfishy]

"We did [optimize it]... You might need to upgrade your PC" - Todd Coward.

[BigshotPayerGR]

Please release a 60fps performance mode on series x

[taylorp]

I believe the traversal stutter will never leave. This was and has been there since the creation engines first inception. I don’t believe there is a solution since I have seen that stutter since morrowind as the game loads in object or assets in the distance that often we can’t even see or notice.

[shagohodds]

This only took em 2months and its a beta patch, in the meantime BG3 patched over 5000issues and added a ton o features.

[opticalsalt]

“It is optimized!” -Todd Howard after launch

This is why I’m becoming more and more jaded, there’s no respect for the end consumer anymore

[Narniak]

Looks like Starfield is almost ready to launch! Can't wait to finally see the amazing space exploration that Todd promised! I already upgraded my PC and everything!

[-Bill.]

But Todd says they DID optimize and people should just upgrade their PCs.

[picolete]

I cant be the only one that sees the DLSS footage blurry

[Xbob]

But Todd said they optimized it... how could they be getting these massive performance gains?

[drpotato]

I just cant with triple A launch now fix later mentality anymore.

[leonkenedy]

This is odd. Todd told us the game was optimized, that the problem was our PC´s (our fault), are you telling me he was lying?