AMD Announced as Starfield's Exclusive Partner on PC

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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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[oxrufiioxo]

There goes all hope of this being decent....... AMD the way it's not meant to be played....




JK lmao.

 

[Chrispy_]

Works for me on my 5800X3D and 6800XT.
Let's hope that it's not actually a sh*tshow at launch!

 

[AdmiralThrawn]

Why?????

Why would the do this when 70% of PC players are on NVIDIA and Intel systems. You are cutting more than half the market share from your player base by telling them unless they buy AMD their game will run bad. I am starting to get very tired of these exclusive bullshit releases.

Edit: This also means no DLSS or RTX for starfield. One of the aspects of this game I was most excited for was RTX and the visuals. But since I have a card made by a company with green letters I am not allowed to experience the game at "maximum overdrive super ultra mega resolution 9000 plus + Max" graphics.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Why?????

Why would the do this when 70% of PC players are on NVIDIA and Intel systems. You are cutting more than half the market share from your player base by telling them unless they buy AMD their game will run bad. I am starting to get very tired of these exclusive bullshit releases.

Because it's Microsoft and they already optimize it somewhat for amd hardware given that's what's in the Series S/X. The majority of their first party titles run great on both hardware makers gpus.

Gears of War, Forza, Halo, Sea of Thieves, all run pretty decently on all hardware.

Only Redfall is pretty shite but that's bad on all hardware.

 

[Arkz]

Works for me on my 5800X3D and 6800XT.
Let's hope that it's not actually a sh*tshow at launch!

"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"

It's gonna run like shit for you then

 

[dirtyferret]

Marketing 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

 

[Chrispy_]

"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"

It's gonna run like shit for you then

Xbox is Zen2+ and RDNA2. I have Zen3+ and RDNA2, I think it'll be fine
Marketing muppets have to push the current-gen, highest-profit parts. It's not their job to tell the truth, and often it's what they're not saying that is most important.

 

[dirtyferret]

Why?????

Why would the do this when 70% of PC players are on NVIDIA and Intel systems. You are cutting more than half the market share from your player base by telling them unless they buy AMD their game will run bad. I am starting to get very tired of these exclusive bullshit releases.

Edit: This also means no DLSS or RTX for starfield. One of the aspects of this game I was most excited for was RTX and the visuals. But since I have a card made by a company with green letters I am not allowed to experience the game at "maximum overdrive super ultra mega resolution 9000 plus + Max" graphics.

relax, it's a marketing deal and bethesda games like edler scrolls and fallout always ran well on on Intel & Nvidia. AMD payed them a ton of money so they get their name on the game

Only Redfall is pretty shite but that's bad on all hardware.

Some would say that's a plus since the bad performance across all hardware can prevent you from playing redfall

 

[R0H1T]

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.

Well I'd hope so.

Last? So that means John Connors fluffed his ultimate test 3 centuries back

JHH still selling those 5 slot monstrosities, huh

 

[SAINT ENZO]

There goes the chances of it having smooth DLSS & DLAA

 

[SCP-001]

Why?????

Why would the do this when 70% of PC players are on NVIDIA and Intel systems. You are cutting more than half the market share from your player base by telling them unless they buy AMD their game will run bad. I am starting to get very tired of these exclusive bullshit releases.

Edit: This also means no DLSS or RTX for starfield. One of the aspects of this game I was most excited for was RTX and the visuals. But since I have a card made by a company with green letters I am not allowed to experience the game at "maximum overdrive super ultra mega resolution 9000 plus + Max" graphics.

RTX isn't a purely Nvidia concept, RTX is just the technology. They can still implement it into the game, which I suspect they will still do.

 

[SCP-001]

I don't see why everyone is freaking out over this? Nvidia does the same thing. It's just a marketing deal and maybe some AMD developers are sent to help. It doesn't mean it's not going to be unplayable on non-AMD hardware.

 

[john_]

Why?????

Why would the do this when 70% of PC players are on NVIDIA and Intel systems. You are cutting more than half the market share from your player base by telling them unless they buy AMD their game will run bad. I am starting to get very tired of these exclusive bullshit releases.

Edit: This also means no DLSS or RTX for starfield. One of the aspects of this game I was most excited for was RTX and the visuals. But since I have a card made by a company with green letters I am not allowed to experience the game at "maximum overdrive super ultra mega resolution 9000 plus + Max" graphics.

You do realize that AMD CPUs are not incompatible with Intel CPUs and AMD GPUs and Nvidia GPUs more or less support the same features.

You'll get official FSR 2.x support that offers good enough upscaling and probably you will get DLSS support either officially a few months latter, or unofficially the next day the game will be released in the form of a patch or something.

You have an RTX 3080, so you are slower than RX 7900XTX in RT, so probably you will get as many RT features as your card will be able to accelerate. In other words the RT effects will not kill your card and make you start thinking going for an RTX 4090.


I would like to hear your perspective about if this game was sponsored by Intel and Nvidia. Would that mean that owners of AMD CPUs and AMD GPUs would feel desperate and left out like you? What would have been your reaction then? What would you say to a GTX or Radeon owner if there was no FSR 2.x support?

 

[Daven]

Can’t wait to play on my Ryzen 7700X and Radeon 7900XT.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

You do realize that AMD CPUs are not incompatible with Intel CPUs and AMD GPUs and Nvidia GPUs more or less support the same features.

You'll get official FSR 2.x support that offers good enough upscaling and probably you will get DLSS support either officially a few months latter, or unofficially the next day the game will be released in the form of a patch or something.

You have an RTX 3080, so you are slower than RX 7900XTX in RT, so probably you will get as many RT features as your card will be able to accelerate. In other words the RT effects will not kill your card and make you start thinking going for an RTX 4090.

The biggest letdown would be FSR2 only support I personally can't stand it at 4k even in the quality mode but life goes on and as you say it will likely get a mod for DLSS quickly after launch ala Jedi Survivor.

Some would say that's a plus since the bad performance across all hardware can prevent you from playing redfall

Yeah, but that would have been somewhat unfortunate if the game was actually good lol. Thankfully it is not.

 

[HeadRusch1]

Nvidia will gladly offer-up another round of $1000+ video cards to brute-force your way to sweet, sweet frames. </sarcasm not sarcasm>. This game will be big enough on all platforms that Nvidia-specific optimizations won't be ignored for long.

 

[TheDeeGee]

Atleast everyone can use FSR2, despite it looking like a steaming pile of dog shit.

 

[Dr. Dro]

Note that this means that DLSS support has been excluded from the title (allegedly, due to contractual obligations with AMD)

AMD announced that it will be Starfield’s exclusive PC partner

AMD has just announced that it will be Starfield's exclusive PC partner, and shared an announcement video.

www.dsogaming.com

What's Up With The Missing NVIDIA DLSS Support In AMD Sponsored FSR Titles?

NVIDIA, with the help of its open-source tools, is helping game devs not only integrate DLSS but also AMD FSR & Intel XeSS into their titles.

wccftech.com

Atleast everyone can use FSR2, despite it looking like a steaming pile of dog shit.

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

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Note that this means that DLSS support has been excluded from the title (allegedly, due to contractual obligations with AMD)

AMD announced that it will be Starfield’s exclusive PC partner

AMD has just announced that it will be Starfield's exclusive PC partner, and shared an announcement video.

www.dsogaming.com

What's Up With The Missing NVIDIA DLSS Support In AMD Sponsored FSR Titles?

NVIDIA, with the help of its open-source tools, is helping game devs not only integrate DLSS but also AMD FSR & Intel XeSS into their titles.

wccftech.com

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

Guessing this game will have more CPU limitations than GPU on the PC side so DLSS probably wouldn't help although DLSS3 can mitigate that somewhat but as we all know Nvidia decided that was for 40 series only.

 

[b1k3rdude]

Works for me on my 5800X3D and 6800XT.
Let's hope that it's not actually a sh*tshow at launch!

Er this is Bethesda, when have they every released a game that wasnt fuill of show stopping bugs on launch. This will be another wait for atleast 2-3 patches and for the price to drop to a reasonable level before I will bother looking at it.

AMD shinanigans aside, nVidia has needed (and continues to need) a kick up the arse like this. Thier hubris and customer unfriendly pricing will hopefully get knocked down a peg or two. And while I now own a 4080, FSR 2.0 is equally inferior to DLSS on AMD/Nvidia hardware.

As ALWAYS, wait for the indipendant reviews.

 

[AnarchoPrimitiv]

Why?????

Why would the do this when 70% of PC players are on NVIDIA and Intel systems. You are cutting more than half the market share from your player base by telling them unless they buy AMD their game will run bad. I am starting to get very tired of these exclusive bullshit releases.

Edit: This also means no DLSS or RTX for starfield. One of the aspects of this game I was most excited for was RTX and the visuals. But since I have a card made by a company with green letters I am not allowed to experience the game at "maximum overdrive super ultra mega resolution 9000 plus + Max" graphics.

What do you want? AMD to role over and die in the consumer dGPU space? I thought we wanted competition, for AMD to get more aggressive....

 

[ZoneDymo]

shockingly unintelligent comments, Im disappointed.

 

[Desto2014]

Atleast everyone can use FSR2, despite it looking like a steaming pile of dog shit.

True. It’s cool that FSR2 is platform agnostic but it’s actually horrendous. Literally EVERY other upscaling tech is better. DLSS, XeSS, AND MetalFX, look wayyyy better. My rage when games lack other options besides FSR is over 9000.

 

[Dr. Dro]

Guessing this game will have more CPU limitations than GPU on the PC side so DLSS probably wouldn't help although DLSS3 can mitigate that somewhat but as we all know Nvidia decided that was for 40 series only.

and apparently AMD decided that it was good for business to prevent games from having access to that. Shrink that violent gap between 4090+FG and practically everything else a lil'?

What do you want? AMD to role over and die in the consumer dGPU space? I thought we wanted competition, for AMD to get more aggressive....

Yes, by releasing faster graphics cards that have no high-severity bugs that they've been aware of for months/years, not bribery