The beta delivers DLSS, frame-gen and massive CPU/GPU performance boosts.

The game’s performance has also improved noticeably with the beta patch.

The patch also fixes the frame-time issues resulting from the ultra quality shadows on Nvidia GPUs.

starfield key art showing a spacesuited person standing in front of a sky with a rocket in it

Going down the stack to older mid-range GPUs, the performance improvements are a little less impressive.

Finally, let’s take a look at the menu system.

There are also HDR controls, but these feel unfortunately underbaked.

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I even noticed off-grey colouring and banding in the opening scene.

This is particularly disappointing whencommunity HDR mods like Lumaproduce noticeably improved results.

Starfield PC screenshot showing improvements from FSR 2 to DLSS in terms of distant anti-aliasing

Starfield PC screenshot showing differences in FOV