Starfield simply obtained some key updates promised by Bethesda a few months in the past, the developer announced. Model 1.8.86 comes with DLSS help that lastly provides customers with supported NVIDIA playing cards options together with DLSS Tremendous Decision, Deep Studying Anti-aliasing (DLAA), Reflex Low Latency and DLSS body era. That ought to assuage quite a few grumbling customers, a lot of whom used a controversial DLSS mod to tide themselves over.
Together with DLSS, the replace consists of GPU efficiency optimizations that may assist customers with higher-end playing cards. Bethesda has additionally addressed reminiscence leaks and different associated points, improved renderer threading and made plenty of different stability and efficiency enhancements. On the graphics aspect, it added brightness and distinction controls (!), whereas addressing points round ambient occlusion, shader compilation, HDR brightness (Xbox and Home windows 11 solely), materials points, crowd character eyes and extra.
Gameplay additionally sees some welcome updates. Now you can “eat the meals positioned on the planet” through a “devour button” with out having so as to add gadgets to stock, a pleasant quality-of-life repair. Bethesda additionally adjusted stealth to be extra forgiving, resolved the issue of Andreja’s head staying completely cloaked, fastened a difficulty that would forestall gamers from firing weapons, resolved an issue with bare NPCs, fastened mouse points and extra. It additionally resolved quest issues that principally revolve round inconsistent recreation play.
Bethesda beta examined the brand new options earlier this month on Steam earlier than deeming them match for launch. In September, it stated that it is “working intently” with NVIDIA, AMD and Intel on driver help, presumably in response to a Digital Foundry technical report saying the sport had “disproportionately poor NVIDIA and Intel efficiency.” Starfield is among the many best-selling video games of 2023 (thanks partly to being free on Sport Move), with the corporate having reported 10 million players as of the tip of September.
