AMD Announced as Starfield's Exclusive Partner on PC

[oxrufiioxo]

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

I'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 were when I picked up a 4090.

I think I could give up some RT and DLSS/FG for half the cost for sure.

 

[Dr. Dro]

I'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.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

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.

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.

 

[Deleted member 229121]

We'll see how things fare once reviews are out; I'm expecting some universal jank anyway since Creation.

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

 

[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.

 

[TheDeeGee]

Seeing Fallout 4 and Skyrim have a DLSS mod it will most likely get modded in anyways.

 

[evernessince]

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

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.

 

[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.

 

[Kapone33]

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?

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.

Can you play TWWH on Console?

 

[ReallyBigMistake]

Great
now DLSS will not be supported and only FSR which means nothing good for PC gamers.
good job MS

 

[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.

 

[Kapone33]

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.

C'mon really?

 

[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.

 

[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.

 

[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

 

[L|NK|N]

Partners with AMD but still runs better on NVIDIA hardware

 

[agatong55]

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.

30 fps lock is only for console not PC

 

[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.

 

[Vayra86]

There 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!'

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.

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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

30 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.

 

[Deleted member 177333]

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.

 

[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?

 

[agatong55]

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?

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.

 

[Haziza]

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.

But DLSS doesn't work at all on AMD cards, so AMD users would suffer even more.

 

[GreiverBlade]

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?

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 ... (subjective opinion )

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 ... )

But 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 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




edit: i suspect a case of "making mountains of molehills" going on, for some.

 

[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.