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0 pointsShamelessC2y ago0 comments

This is also mentioned at the end of the linked article.

> For anyone hoping for a more official (and less morally fraught) way to add DLSS support to Starfield, AMD hasn't completely ruled it out. In a recent interview with The Verge, AMD Gaming CEO Frank Azor said that "if they [Bethesda] want to do DLSS, they have AMD’s full support... If [our partners] ask us for DLSS support, we always tell them yes." No public word yet from Bethesda on whether that "if" will become a "when" any time soon.

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kimixa2y ago

Also DLSS has pretty strict requirements in advertising, requiring nvidia logo & adverts on splash screens and give nvidia any rights to use your app in their own advertising. [0] It's certainly not "free". A completely night and day difference to FSR, which just uses MIT [1]

Lots of people online seem to believe both are "free", so the only reason why you wouldn't implement one is some back room deal. But in my experience, just getting everyone into the same room to sign off on things like that is hard.

One "advantage" to this mod is they can completely ignore the license I guess.

[0] https://github.com/NVIDIA/DLSS/blob/main/LICENSE.txt

[1] https://github.com/GPUOpen-Effects/FidelityFX-FSR/blob/maste...

tensor2y ago

What are they leaving out though? "Yes, sure, implement DLSS but then whatever money we're giving you will be 50% less. But you can implement it if you want!"

jhasse2y ago

They aren't obligated to give developers any money, so I don't see the scandal here.

belltaco2y ago

> If [our partners] ask us for DLSS support...

The fact that they have to ask them if it's okay...

fnordpiglet2y ago

These sorts of things are usually said with a wink.

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