According to Jerret West, Xbox’s chief marketing director, there was no extra pressure on Bethesda Game Studios (BGS) after Arkane’s big flop with Redfall.
“When you think about where we want to get to on the first-party side, we want to get it to flow, where there’s no single game that feels like it has that much weight and expectation, I guess you could say. When I look at Starfield, I don’t necessarily think Redfall placed excessive pressure on it. I think Starfield put pressure on itself because it is an ecosystem draw. Bethesda makes a new IP RPG once every two decades. So, there was just the natural attention around that.
What it did was, on the marketing side, sharpen our thinking around how we had to be very playful and precise and very honest and open with the community about what Starfield is and what Starfield isn’t. So, it did sharpen our thinking, but I don’t necessarily know that it was tied to Redfall. When you launch something like Starfield, connected to Xbox, people are looking at it through that lens. There is increased expectation and scrutiny on these titles,” West told Gamesindustry in the interview.
For those with Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics cards, don’t despair: there’s an option to use Nvidia’s technology, DLSS, instead of XeSS (Intel) and FSR (AMD). You can find the mod on NexusMods, which will bring its menu up in the game with the End button; you just need to enable FSR because PureDark’s mod will replace it. Extract the mod into the game’s root directory, install the Upscaler Base Plugin, put PDPerfplugin.dll in the mods/UpscalerBasePlugin folder, and put nvngx_dlss.dll and libxess.dll in the same folder. That’s the installation; it should be done in a minute.
Frozburn made a video using an Intel Core i9-13900K CPU and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 GPU. He ran the base AMD FSR 2 and the modded Nvidia DLSS 2 upscaling solution at native 4K resolution and compared the two. Performance is similar, but image quality is better and cleaner on DLSS, and PureDark’s mod is expected to support DLSS 3 soon. In the second video, ElAnalistaDeBits compares performance on PC, Xbox Series S, and Xbox Series X. Performance on the XSS is quite well optimized, with a stable 30 FPS frame rate most of the time, while not sacrificing much in the way of graphics.
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