Tuesday, June 27th 2023

AMD Announced as Starfield's Exclusive Partner on PC

AMD and Bethesda have today revealed that Starfield will be best experienced on a Ryzen processor and Radeon graphics card-equipped PC. Team Red has been announced as the giant open world game's official graphics and GPU partner, but its Xbox Series hardware also gets a couple of friendly shout-outs. Todd Howard, director and executive producer at Bethesda Game Studios, stated in the video presentation: "We have AMD engineers in our code base working on FSR (FidelityFX Super Resolution) 2.0 image processing and upscaling and it looks incredible. You're going to get the benefits of that obviously on your PC but also on Xbox. We're super excited and can't wait to show everybody more."

Jack Huynh, Senior Vice President and General Manager of its Computing and Graphics Group at AMD, added: "Making this game even more special, is the close collaboration between Bethesda and AMD to unlock the full potential of Starfield. We have worked hand-in-hand with Bethesda Game Studios to optimize Starfield for both Xbox and PC with Ryzen 7000 series processors and Radeon 7000 series graphics. The optimizations both accelerate performance and enhance the quality of your gameplay using highly multi-threaded code that both Xbox and PC players will get to take advantage of."
AMD is proud to announce that we are Bethesda's exclusive PC partner for the next-generation role-playing game, Starfield. Watch this special announcement video to learn how AMD and Bethesda are working together to bring the galaxy to all players this September:


About Starfield
Starfield is the first new universe in over 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4. In this next generation role-playing game set amongst the stars, create any character you want and explore with unparalleled freedom as you embark on an epic journey to answer humanity's greatest mystery. In the year 2330, humanity has ventured beyond our solar system, settling new planets, and living as a spacefaring people. You will join Constellation - the last group of space explorers seeking rare artifacts throughout the galaxy - and navigate the vast expanse of space in Bethesda Game Studios' biggest and most ambitious game.

AMD is the exclusive PC partner for Starfield, promising to deliver the most complete PC gaming experience in the galaxy. We cannot wait to explore the universe with you this September. Ready to learn more?
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226 Comments on AMD Announced as Starfield's Exclusive Partner on PC

#26
Dr. Dro
oxrufiioxoI've been seeing deals placing the 7900XTX much closer in price to the 4070ti than the 4080 just recently Amazon had a powercolor card for $829 so either AMD has amazing margins or Amazon is like F it we might as well take a loss.

Either way its good to see honestly. I think if it starts to sit closer to the price consistently competition will be decent enough even I would have considered one for 800 ish usd nearly 300 usd less than decent models where when I picked up a 4090.
Yeah, the prices are good, I'll give you that much. I've considered selling my 3090 and picking one up. Then I remember all of the driver bugs and the crap I have to deal with... I still might if Starfield doesn't perform flawlessly on the 3090. I've been looking forward to this game for far too long.
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#27
oxrufiioxo
Dr. DroYeah, the prices are good, I'll give you that much. I've considered selling my 3090 and picking one up. Then I remember all of the driver bugs and the crap I have to deal with... I still might if Starfield doesn't perform flawlessly on the 3090. I've been looking forward to this game for far too long.
Honestly 800 ish is good for that level of rasterized performance. I think most people using just one display are fine on AMD drivers.

There is some weird stuff going on in some games and 1% lows but I am not sure how widespread that its.
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#28
Unregistered
We'll see how things fare once reviews are out; I'm expecting some universal jank anyway since Creation.
TheDeeGeeAtleast everyone can use FSR2, despite it looking like a steaming pile of dog shit.
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#29
qlum
Personally I find little wrong with it being amd sponsored, sure that probably means it's lighter on the ray tracing and no dlss at launch, but it's at least safe from nvidia pulling tricks that only work on Nvidia. Considering the engine I am sure a DLSS mod is no big deal.

Let's hope the fundamentals are at least decent, performance level. This is something both nvidia and amd sponsored titles have struggled with.

At least for the industry anything that halts an nvidia total dominance is a good thing.

On anything that is not Nvidia 2000 series or newer DLSS is useless anyway. In that sense I don't mind them blocking it, DLSS could probably run just fine on intel hardware if allowed and maybe even on rdna3 woth some question marks.
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#30
TheDeeGee
Seeing Fallout 4 and Skyrim have a DLSS mod it will most likely get modded in anyways.
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#31
evernessince
dirtyferretMarketing Line "The optimizations both accelerate performance and enhance the quality of your gameplay using highly multi-threaded code that both Xbox and PC players will get to take advantage of."
Reality - We are going to dump the rendering onto two main cores and toss out a a few drawcalls and minor things like audio onto other cores as needed
In line with other Bethesda games on this engine. I'd be impressed if they finally managed to overcome that limitation but judging by the jank of what's shown, I doubt it.
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#32
Wye
I think they confuse PC with Console.
There is no such think as exclusive on PC.

Partnering with the Pepsi of GPUs is a desperate move.
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#33
kapone32
Why are people acting like any of this is new? Just look at TW and you will find AMD, Intel and Nvidia marketing. Someone else has said it and I have said this before but the fact that all AAA Console Games on PS5 and Xbox will be created using AMD hardware will mean situations like this will be even more common. It is out there that all of the complaints about current console ports are not even a topic in the 7000 owners Garden. Just as like I said before the 3 months for of no driver updates was AMD refining 7000 to run optimum with Console Ports.

It's not like CP2077 hasn't become a commercial for Nvidia but you won't hear the AMD users complaining about that. The people complaining about FSR and how crappy it is (I don't use it) sound like the Gsync champions that made comments like Gsync looks better than Freesync. Where has that argument gone in world where users think that VRR is not Freesync?
WyeI think they confuse PC with Console.
There is no such think as exclusive on PC.

Partnering with the Pepsi of GPUs is a desperate move.
Can you play TWWH on Console?
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#34
ReallyBigMistake
Great
now DLSS will not be supported and only FSR which means nothing good for PC gamers.
good job MS
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#35
HisDivineOrder
AMD, champion of the people, ladies and gentlemen. Locking people out of technology that might benefit them because they know the comparison will make them look worse. Not even bad. Just worse. Even Nvidia and Intel aren't this insecure.
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#36
kapone32
HisDivineOrderAMD, champion of the people, ladies and gentlemen. Locking people out of technology that might benefit them because they know the comparison will make them look worse. Not even bad. Just worse. Even Nvidia and Intel aren't this insecure.
C'mon really?
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#37
dir_d
Wow, a lot of bandwagon hatters out there. FSR2.2 looks just fine when you are playing a game. If i want to nit pick, pause, look at backgrounds, blow up images, then yes DLSS is better. None of these upscaling solutions should be needed in the first place. Is the game locked at 30FPS on PC, if so it does not even matter.
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#38
Denver
Well, It can't be any worse than Nvidia's "experimental" CB2077.

You guys should hope for it to have decent performance/optimization and good gameplay, not to implement crap like DLSS and FSR2 because that's the only way to fix the bad performance.
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#39
thunderingroar
Whats up with the doom and gloom comments in here? People pretending as if their house will blow up if they the run the game on non amd hardware. Its just a marketing deal just like RE4 and Dead Island 2 had, which ran well on all hardware.

And here i thought tpu comments would have more common sense
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#40
L|NK|N
Partners with AMD but still runs better on NVIDIA hardware :nutkick:
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#41
agatong55
dir_dWow, a lot of bandwagon hatters out there. FSR2.2 looks just fine when you are playing a game. If i want to nit pick, pause, look at backgrounds, blow up images, then yes DLSS is better. None of these upscaling solutions should be needed in the first place. Is the game locked at 30FPS on PC, if so it does not even matter.
30 fps lock is only for console not PC
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#42
Xeanoa
@T0@st
Video says FSR 2, your article says FSR 2.0.
It would probably be 2.2 or 2.3 if I had to guess.
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#43
Vayra86
oxrufiioxoThere goes all hope of this being decent....... AMD the way it's not meant to be played....




JK lmao.
Well it does lend credence to the idea that they tried to get the deal from Nvidia, but they saw Creation Engine and said 'NOPE!'
Dr. DroNote that this means that DLSS support has been excluded from the title (allegedly, due to contractual obligations with AMD)

www.dsogaming.com/news/amd-announced-that-it-will-be-starfields-exclusive-pc-partner/

wccftech.com/whats-up-with-the-missing-nvidia-dlss-support-in-amd-sponsored-fsr-titles/



I'll stomach DLSS on the highest quality preset if I can't meet 60 fps at 4K, but I will never use FSR if it can be helped
This is a good thing, now it means they can't cheat you with a 30 FPS DLSS3 record that is actually 15 FPS in latency.

I'm in an optimistic mood today, see
agatong5530 fps lock is only for console not PC
For PC its just the cold hard reality whenever they have anything but a barren moon landscape going on ;)

So far every single gameplay scene I've seen on video was a stuttery mess.
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#44
Unregistered
Great...so now we're starting to see titles like this and Jedi Survivor where the game doesn't have DLSS in it when that's what the vast majority of people are using. Just one more thing to create division in the gaming arena now.
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#45
Haziza
How will Nvidia respond to this? AMD has done this on several titles now. What if Nvidia starts to do the same thing? Are AMD users screwed for selected titles in the future?
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#46
agatong55
HazizaHow will Nvidia respond to this? AMD has done this on several titles now. What if Nvidia starts to do the same thing? Are AMD users screwed for selected titles?
This has been happening for years from both sides, it really doesn't mean to much and not really that big of a deal.
People are just mad because this is AMD and not Nvidia, if it was Nvidia doing this there wouldn't be this much of a reaction.
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#47
Haziza
agatong55This has been happening for years from both sides, it really doesn't mean to much and not really that big of a deal.
People are just mad because this is AMD and not Nvidia, if it was Nvidia doing this there wouldn't be this much of a reaction.
But DLSS doesn't work at all on AMD cards, so AMD users would suffer even more.
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#48
GreiverBlade
HazizaHow will Nvidia respond to this? AMD has done this on several titles now. What if Nvidia starts to do the same thing? Are AMD users screwed for selected titles?
they, Nvidia, already did it quite a number of time (think TW3 with Nvidia FiascoWork, errrr i meant hairwork) ..., to me Starfield is only the second or third i saw like that (for AMD)


to me either is fine DLSS or FSR shouldn't be needed ofc ... but i rather choose the more open one over the proprietary one (for no good reasons )
and FSR tend to look better for me than DLSS even in the recent revision ... :oops: (subjective opinion :p )

glad to be in the 30% ... it works just fine it play just fine ... hilariously less driver issues or crashes than the previous blue/green setup i had before (again, i had rigs with product from Intel, AMD, ATI and Nvidia ... )
HazizaBut DLSS doesn't work at all on AMD cards, so AMD users would suffer even more.
i saw games with the Nvidia logo having FSR in the settings o_O can't remember which one ...

nonetheless ... not a big loss ... i would not suffer if it has only DLSS, even if i had a Nvidia card i would not use it :laugh:




edit: i suspect a case of "making mountains of molehills" going on, for some.
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#49
THU31
Cool. What I overpaid for the 4070, I will save by not buying AMD-sponsored games. Since they're getting paid by them, clearly they don't need my money.

I have over a thousand games in my Steam library. Probably a good time to play some of them.
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#50
agatong55
THU31Cool. What I overpaid for the 4070, I will save by not buying AMD-sponsored games. Since they're getting paid by them, clearly they don't need my money.

I have over a thousand games in my Steam library. Probably a good time to play some of them.
Well good thing you dont have to pay for the game and you can play for free on gamepass.
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