A lot of PC gamers were disappointed when AMD announced that it will be Starfield’s exclusive PC partner. You see, AMD has been blocking NVIDIA’s DLSS tech (which looks better than FSR) in a lot of its sponsored titles. And, as you’d expect, modder PureDark revealed that he will add support for DLSS 2/3 via a mod when the game launches.
Now the good news here is that PureDark will add support for DLSS 3 in a matter of days. After implementing DLSS 3 Frame Generation, the modder will also add support for DLSS 2.
The bad news is that this DLSS 3 Mod will be behind a Patreon wall. And I get it, the modder wants to be paid for his work. However, putting your mods behind a Patreon wall is as “anti-consumer” as AMD blocking a specific tech.
Some may say that you can subscribe just to get the mod and then unsubscribe. The thing is, though, that a new patch for Starfield may break support for the DLSS 3 Mod (so you’ll have to subscribe once again in order to get the newer version). So, instead of paying once, you’ll have to pay twice. Brilliant.
Let’s also not forget that PC gamers won’t wait for two months until they can get a free version of the DLSS 3 Mod. And, to be honest, we may not even see a free version of it. For instance, the DLSS 3 Mods for The Last of Us Part I, Jedi Survivor, Elden Ring and Skyrim are still behind a Patreon wall.
In conclusion, this won’t be a great workaround for most PC gamers. And again, I get it. The modder has done a lot of work and wants compensation. However, I strongly believe that a Donation button would be more appropriate than a Patreon subscription. Or at least that’s my opinion. Thus, let’s hope that Bethesda will add support for both DLSS 2 and 3.
Starfield will release on September 6th.
Stay tuned for more!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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It’s tempting to buy these mods and upload them on a Russian site for everyone.
Gate keeping c*ck suckers.
speaking of which i went to a russian modding site where they dont care about dmcas and they removed so many old mods i cant find any where now.
Mods removed from that russian site? Or you found the old mods in that site?
460 is so bad that reviewers recommend you buy the amd equivalent that got multiple price cuts. Nvidia dominance is over because they sell you a 150 4050 card for 300 as a 4060 and the perfomance increase is tiny often worse than 3060 ti, BUT THATS OK BECAUSE IT USES LESS ENERGY AND FIGHTS CLIMATE CHANGE. So long story short amd working with devs to make these console ports more optimized spells the end of nvidia for gaming, dont worry though the ai cores that do nothing right now are totally gonna save gaming.
Watch that terrible 4060 sweep the floor with all RDNA cards combined on Amazon or Microcenter.
jay two centz “4060 is the best argument to buy a amd card” gamernexus “amd drops prices again, might as well buy a amd card instead of the 4060”
The benchmarks are out.
Why are you looking to buy those trash a*s cards anyways? People pay the most for the best thing and that’s why Nvidia is dominating the market.
The ego of announcing a payed mod for a game thats yet to release. So you’re not only assuming its going to work but its gonna work so well players will want to pay extra to the already high price of the base game. I can understand modders wanting to be paid for work when its been tried and tested but this is pushing it a bit.
oh come on, new vegas reloaded works perfectly without flaws or issues.
sarcasm/
Ya, for a day…then someone will upload it elsewhere.
Those greedy f*cks like to put a DRM -.-
Examples of where people would upload these?
C s dot Rin dot r u
This will get deleted
Thanks a bunch man!
not even need to go russian site , i already saw link directly to reddit
Mind sharing the link? Or at least the subreddit it was found on?
Sounds about right, just the way Nvidia fans likes to roll.
The only way he can convince me to subscribe, is to throw some pictures of his mom there as well
i litteraly said this a couple of days ago… modders are going to monetize every wotld wide wanted feature.
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So it seems Starfield won’t get a DLSS3 mod, huh?
Hopefully some files will somehow emerge soon after release…
I see John is still going around spreading misinformation about AMD.
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How do you know that the modders have a middle eastern complexion?
I’m against paid mods, but the guy is asking for $5, not your left kidney.
In an ideal world, people would donate when they enjoy a mod, but unfortunately, that’s just not the case. Players rarely go out of their way to donate.
Mods like these are on a completely different level than typical mods, requiring thousands of hours and highly specialized skill sets and very tedious, low level graphic API work.
It’s wiered gamers expects modders to do everything for free. It’s as if it’s the modders obligation to do something for notning.
ofc it will be behind a paywall, modern modders are just an empty shell of what they used to be, they now d*ck ride the latest trends of money grabbing
Considering Nvidia users are happy paying for $600 graphics cards to use upscaling tech, I’m sure they’re fine with paying some more to add upscaling and frame interpolation into their games too.
Welcome to the future. Hopefully you can also leave 2018 someday
To all the people in the comments. If you don’t like paying, just make your own mod. How out of touch with reality do you have to be to call someone greedy for wanting to be paid for his work ?
you can also ask yourself how out of touch you are with the gaming community as a gamer.
Gaming community ? You mean a bunch of entitled id i ots ?
Usually when i don’t like paying i just pirate the damn thing, but i will consider coding a 1:1 copy of said game/mod from scratch, that seems like a pratical advice from your part…
So he developed dlss3 and modding it into the game? Is that it?
John for god sake do something for comment system i have to wait for them to be approved most of the time.
Realistically, we can’t expect the modder to do it for free but developers should have included dlss in the first place. I don’t know if amd really prevented them from doing so but if it did, it’s just a plain sign that amd itself believes it’s upscaling tech is inferior to nvidia. In the end, users better not pay for upscaling anyway.
either it will leak, like pascal glicher rtx reshade eternal beta
either someone else will make similar mod (we have see many dlss mod in the past it doesn’t seem complicated)
Game have FSR 2 which is open source and work on everything: PC, handhelds like Steam Deck, game consoles. We don’t need some proprietary tech from Nvidia that support only Nvidia hardware
This whole notion that modders should get paid for their work and that they are allowed to put mods behind paywalls is completely backward.
Modders are people who mess with games for fun and as a hobby.
They exist in a grey area, because their mods are free.
If you start asking for money or pay walling mods, you are no longer a modder.
The game owner should sue you for trying to make money using their game.
People should burn you for being absolute scum.
Modding becomes a giant mess if people start introducing paid mods into mix.
This will eventually incentivize publishers to monetize modding. In no way they will look over these paywall modders for long.
exactely!
Exactly, it always was a hobby and out of love to the game / community.
Sadly Bethesda and some have different opinions since they only see profit on it.
“blocking NVIDIA’s DLSS tech” – no thats not how game sponship works! Its bug when this kind of disinformation is spread without any bloody fact checking.
When AMD/nVidida sponsor a title, no money changes hands. They simply help the game dev optomize their game for the given GPU platform, its then upto the dev then if they want to implement. So if you want accuse anyone, its Bethesda, just do a simple search on them – https://www.polygon.com/2018/6/28/17511658/bethesda-lawsuits-fallout-elder-scrolls-prey
Well Bethesda did push paid mods and the community did accept it. Well played guys…
I think it’s best to point all that anger and resentment towards those who are actually to blame here, namely the corporation that left you with no choice. Not toward some guy who might mod the feature in and in his spare time, which everyone seems to think is worth nothing.
And the modder wanting to be paid for his work, how the actual f**k is this anti-consumer??!! If the F**KING dev cant be f**ked to get DLSS working then WTF should a modder do it for free…!!!
I regularly pay for 3rd party tools and utilities because otherwise without these indipendant devs, we are subject to the whims of big corps and what “they f**king” think we want.
Modding has always been about fans showing their deep passion for a game by investing their free time into expanding or enhancing said game. Now, I’m not going to pretend that I know how he implements DLSS3 into games, but I reckon it’s a coding job, a tough one, however, other modders have poured an insane amount of time and effort and never asked for a dime.
I guess Modding has changed as well from being passion-driven to a money-making hustle just like game development.
i full agree with you here. I remember a time modders did this for the fans of a game. For the love of PC gaming, for the passion to show the world their talents, for letting the world know why to choose PC gaming and not consoles, for making a game better and let people enjoy it , for a big F***k you to lazy money grabbing publishers to show them to be ashamed for not fixing their game..
vs modders anno 2023; gimme moolah and F***k you gamers..
It really depends on whether what you’re modding is fun or not. Adding a new character or gameplay mode into a game might be a lot of fun.
Working ridiculously hard to work with a messy graphic API to get DLSS working is plain and simple a job that if you weren’t doing it as a mod any number of developers would hire you to do it officially for their game.
Its a sorry state of afairs when modders have to take up the slack because the mains devs cant be f***ing bothered. If its a game I like and the cost of the mod reasonable, then I personaly dont have an issue with helping those modders.
Uploaded in 15 sec please common, let the people choose an amount of donation smart a*s. Would glad to be the first to race it
Btw since when this is moderated I remember choosing as the folks here no moderation?
F*k you greeck peasant
Hold on, this is waiting to be approved by DSOGaming.
I for one am glad he’s charging for it. It brings more attention to the absurdity of it being left out in the first place.
There’s always people who will share these patreon exclusive mods and whatnot. Like with the RTGI shaders
-30 fps on Xbox
-AI generated content
-AMD sponsored title so it will have no DLSS and will be a VRAM hog
-modders trying to scam users out of money
I am not touching this game with a 10 foot pole.
I’ll just play the game at Native resolution/rendering. Never once used DLSS on any game. I prefer crisp clean graphics
It’s fine. cs rin ru exists for a reason.
Also, I don’t disagree with a modder wanting to be paid for his work.
Still won’t touch it.
This is straight up incorrect. AMD has been accused of blocking DLSS but there’s absolutely no evidence of that. Just a bunch of bloggers perpetuating the FUD. As of right now, there is no evidence of this, and hence zero reason to believe it. A few YouTubers, including LTT and MLID have investigated this and talked to devs and they have actually completely refuted the idea. AMD supporting the devs does not equate to blocking DLSS.
It started with one blogger looking at AMD’s official FSR list, and crying because none of the games supported DLSS when they actually cherry-picked the list and it actually DID have games that supported both. It screams either incompetence or shill.
Nvidia did this for years and they get praised for having amazing software and support. AMD does it and it’s anti consumer? Stop drinking the Kool-Aid.