New Starfield Patch Finally Adds DLSS And Brightness Sliders

After some beta testing, Bethesda has launched Starfield’s newest patch for PC and Xbox. This new replace provides DLSS assist, the power to eat meals you discover on this planet immediately, some much-needed graphical choices, and loads of bug fixes, too.

Starfield’s 1.8.86 replace is now dwell on Xbox Series X/S and PC. This replace was first beta-tested by way of Steam earlier this month. It seems these checks went nicely, as Bethesda has now pushed the brand new replace dwell for everybody. This signifies that after months of paid mods and group drama, Starfield lastly has official DLSS assist, letting people with appropriate Nvidia graphics playing cards use DLSS Super Resolution, Deep Learning Anti-aliasing (DLAA), Nvidia Reflex Low Latency, and DLSS Frame era. But that’s not all that’s been added on this replace.

The new 1.8.86 replace additionally provides the power to eat food and drinks gadgets that you just discover on this planet with out having to choose them up first and chow down on them by way of the stock display screen. It’s a small change, however it ought to assist hold you immersed on this planet and spend much less time digging via menus. Plus, it is going to be enjoyable to simply run round locations and eat each Chunk I see like an out-of-control cartoon character.

This patch additionally provides brightness and distinction sliders to the huge open-world house RPG. There are some HDR brightness settings, too for platforms that assist that. And sure, it’s nonetheless wild that in 2023 a big-budget AAA online game from a veteran sport studio shipped with out brightness and distinction sliders. What a world!

Anyway, listed here are the complete 1.8.86 patch notes for Starfield:

PERFORMANCE AND STABILITY

• Addressed plenty of memory-related points and leaks.
• Added some GPU efficiency optimizations, which will likely be extra impactful on higher-end playing cards.
• Improved renderer threading mannequin, enhancing CPU utilization most notably on higher-end techniques.
• Various stability and efficiency enhancements.

GAMEPLAY

• Added the power to eat the meals positioned on this planet.
• Adjusted stealth to be a bit extra forgiving.
• Fixed a difficulty the place Andreja’s head would keep completely cloaked.
• Fixed a difficulty that would stop gamers from firing their weapons.
• Fixed points the place some NPC may very well be seen not sporting garments (Note: This difficulty might resolve itself over time).
• Fixed a difficulty the place already in-progress ability challenges may cease progressing after reaching “the Unity” and beginning a brand new sport.
• Fixed a difficulty that would quickly stop opening the stock or saving after coming into “the Unity”.
• PC: Fixed a difficulty the place mouse motion may very well be uneven.
• Fixed a uncommon difficulty that would trigger the house ship to be misplaced.
• Fixed a difficulty the place the ship providers technician could be lacking.
• Fixed a difficulty the place sometimes the digicam may shake incorrectly throughout Traveling, Grav Jumping, Docking, or Landing transitions.

GRAPHICS

• Addressed a difficulty with how ambient occlusion appeared in ultrawide resolutions.
• Optimized preliminary shader compilation that happens on start-up.
• Added the power to regulate Brightness and Contrast within the Display Settings menu.
• Added the power to regulate HDR Brightness offered that the system helps it. (Xbox & Windows 11 solely).
• Addressed plenty of supplies that would generally current an unintended sample beneath sure circumstances.
• Fixed numerous visible points associated to the brand new FOV slider choices.
• Improved the looks of the eyes on crowd characters.
• Addressed plenty of minor visible points associated to lighting, shadows, terrain, and vegetation.
• PC: Addressed further visible points associated to DLSS.

QUESTS

• All That Money Can Buy: Fixed a uncommon difficulty the place gamers couldn’t sit through the negotiation with Musgrove.
• Blast Zone: Fixed a difficulty the place the exhausting rocks that must be cleared out by gamers won’t seem on Ngodup Tate’s land.
• Echoes of the Past: Fixed a difficulty the place the Grylloba Queen may generally not be reachable through the goal “Secure the Shuttle Bay”.
• Eye of the Storm: Fixed a difficulty the place gamers’ quest development may doubtlessly be blocked attributable to a lacking docking immediate.
• Grunt Work: Addressed a difficulty the place progress may seem blocked if “Supra et Ultra” was accomplished whereas returning to the Lodge throughout “High Price to Pay”.
• No Sudden Moves: Fixed a difficulty that would stop the doorway door to the Scow ship from being opened once more.
• Operation Starseed: Fixed a difficulty the place the important thing that’s wanted to exit the ability may generally not be current.
• Sabotage: Fixed a difficulty the place David Barron may doubtlessly not be discovered by gamers.
• Short-Sighted: Fixed a difficulty the place gamers may not often change into control-locked whereas talking with Vladimir.
• The Heart of Mars: Fixed a difficulty the place gamers may not have the ability to mine the “The Heart of Mars”.

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