The association between AMD and Bethesda for now only guarantees that the game Starfield It will only come with FSR 2 technology at launch, and as far as is known it should be the only image enhancement technology present in the game. The game folder, which can already be checked by players who have preloaded Starfield, does not show any evidence of NVIDIA DLSS and Intel XeSS.
The screenshot of the folder screen posted by Sebastian Castellanos on Twitter it doesn’t show any DLSS or XeSS files or folders, but there’s nothing referencing FSR either. This is due to the open source nature of AMD’s technology, which means that the technology does not appear in the form of a DLL.
Corroborating with the information on the site, in other games you can find folders and DLL files of NVIDA DLSS and Intel XeSS, but there are no traces of AMD FSRalthough the technology is present in the game.
The AMD Sponsored Gaming Controversies
If Starfield really launches with only AMD FSRs, it will give even more weight to reports that games associated with AMD they tend to sideline rival technologies.
From June 2021 to May this year, 12 AMD sponsored titles have been released and four of them have DLSS support, the rest only FSR support. In contrast, of the eight NVIDIA sponsored games that were released in this same period, only one did not receive an FSR from AMD, which was Battlefield 2042, something strange, since the developer company goes hand in hand with the Red Team.
At the time, both AMD and NVIDIA commented on the matter. AMD defended itself by saying that there are many games that only support DLSS, something that it could not verify. For its part, NVIDIA said it does not restrict developers from implementing its competitors’ technologies.
The association between AMD and Bethesda even resulted in the customization of 500 Radeon RX 7900 XTX video cards with the Starfield theme.
