Starfield Beta Update 1.8.83 Released with NVIDIA DLSS 3 Frame Generation, Eat Button, Improved Stealth, and More

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What does NVIDIA DLSS 3 have to offer over AMD's existing FSR 2 option for Starfield? Fans of Bethesda Game Studios' space-faring RPG can find out today, as the developer has released Starfield Beta Update 1.8.83, allowing players on Steam to check out many of NVIDIA's latest performance-enhancing technologies in its newest game.

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I plan to restart my game since I maybe got about a 1/4 into it before stepping back. I'm glad they made it this far but disappointed about the HDR controls being Windows 11 only on PC. That basically tells me they did the bare minimum and have essentially handed that feature off to MS to deal with and so it's probably not true HDR at all. Otherwise, happy about everything else.
 
Improved stealth is MUCH needed. You pop a guy from a very long range and have max stealth where if you don't move you're near invisible... And everyone that gets near the body starts shooting at you IMMEDIATELY. If I'm going to do some long range silenced sniping... I want SOME benefit from stealth.

I mean... it's not like they hit often... but still.
 
Peter_Brosdahl said:
so it's probably not true HDR at all
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Well, HDR doesn't really 'truly' exist on the desktop. What we have are half-arsed attempts at mapping because monitors have such a very broad interpretation of HDR.

(as I understand it, one has to set their monitor brightness to a certain level, and match that in the Windows 11 HDR tool somehow, and then HDR can get close to what it's supposed to be)
 
DrezKill said:
Daaaaaaang, are you serious?! I guess I missed that part!
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From the update notes:

"Added the ability to adjust HDR Brightness provided that the system supports it. (Xbox & Windows 11 only)."

LazyGamer said:
Well, HDR doesn't really 'truly' exist on the desktop. What we have are half-arsed attempts at mapping because monitors have such a very broad interpretation of HDR.

(as I understand it, one has to set their monitor brightness to a certain level, and match that in the Windows 11 HDR tool somehow, and then HDR can get close to what it's supposed to be)
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Too true but I've got maybe a dozen or so games that knock it out of the park on my C9/Z9D and some that still manage to look good on the CRG9. This game however, looks so bland w/o it by comparison that it reminds of the old 8-bit RGB settings. Still not going to W11 just for this though.
 
So, I decided to try the BETA to test this out.

Unsurprisingly it looks like they phoned it in, at least on the HDR side.

Instead of three sliders like in Cyberpunk (Max brightness, Paper white, tone mapping midpoint) so you can really configure it to make the most of your screen, there is just one slider, with no indication as to what it does (no units) and it goes from 0-1

Default is 0.80

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The DLSS implementation is also confusing. It has all the different settings (quality, performance, etc.) but the render resolution scale is still there at the top of the page, making it unclear as to how they interract, especially because the main difference between the different DLSS quality levels is just how much they scale...


Also, they seem to have tried to address the negative LOD Bias complaints with upscaling.

...but they haven't done it well. The settings they have chosen seem to introduce a lot of unintended sparkling light effects. They need to optimize that better.

I mean, this isn't rocket science. The Nvidia implementation PDF tells you exactly what to do, what lod bias range to use for what resolution and scale factor, and what to do if you see sparkling effects...

So yeah, they really phoned in this stuff.


But on the positive side, this update MASSIVELY improved my CPU performance. It gets much better framerates in cities than it used to. In fact, performance overall is much improved.
 
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Yeah, I booted it up last night just to take a peek. I'm on W10 so no-HDR and colors still look like crap. Performance-wise the 4090 was pushing 100-110 FPS w/ DLSS Quality and frame gen on. I also noticed the weird menu layout. I cranked scaling to 100% and noticed it turned on VRS which I also turned off. I guess I'll be back on the hunt for an HDR/color correction mod again. I had a good one that I'll check on again. At least I'll be down to one mod instead of 3 or 4.

Wasn't there some kind of FOV thing? I looked around and didn't see it. Maybe it was some kind of auto 32:9 fix they plugged in. I only tested on the C2 last night but will get around to the CRG9 either today or this weekend.
 
While I definitely don't share the exact same feelings (although I do about the game's color palette) as this person does it still gave me grin to read their post on the Steam forum.

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Peter_Brosdahl said:
While I definitely don't share the exact same feelings (although I do about the game's color palette) as this person does it still gave me grin to read their post on the Steam forum.

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The HDR mode I used was a little bit complicated to install (it had many parts and the instructions were imperfect, but the results were pretty good in the end, except for the UI elements being a bit bright.

They didn't completely eliminate the LUT's, because once you do it looks a little flat and boring, but instead they significantly reduced their intensity, and the results were pretty **** good.

This is the one I used:
www.nexusmods.com

Starfield HDR - Native AutoHDR Addon

Has Auto HDR caused you depression? Just want something that just provides a real High Dynamic Range experience? Bought a LG OLED Display only to find that Bethesda are incompetent of implementing HDR
www.nexusmods.com www.nexusmods.com

To get it to work properly you have to install a few prerequisites, and then launch the game from the SFSE executable in the game folder going forward.
 
Zarathustra said:
The HDR mode I used was a little bit complicated to install (it had many parts and the instructions were imperfect, but the results were pretty good in the end, except for the UI elements being a bit bright.

They didn't completely eliminate the LUT's, because once you do it looks a little flat and boring, but instead they significantly reduced their intensity, and the results were pretty **** good.

This is the one I used:
www.nexusmods.com

Starfield HDR - Native AutoHDR Addon

Has Auto HDR caused you depression? Just want something that just provides a real High Dynamic Range experience? Bought a LG OLED Display only to find that Bethesda are incompetent of implementing HDR
www.nexusmods.com www.nexusmods.com

To get it to work properly you have to install a few prerequisites, and then launch the game from the SFSE executable in the game folder going forward.
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Thanks! I'll give this a try. The I used before was LUT mod that had its own share of complications. Looked pretty good but not perfect either. I love the description for it.
 
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