Reading up on Starfield is kind of pissing me off. I was unaware of the partnership with AMD. One of the nice things about playing games on a PC is that I don't have to worry about platform wars. Except, now I do, apparently. It seems that those of us with Nvidia GPUs (in other words, all of us) now get the short end of it as a consequence. It's not necessarily that Beth intentionally borked their RTX support, although that might well be the case, or that they wouldn't implement DLSS in favour of AMD's inferior FSR, but the optimization for AMD GPUs is massively better. We're talking about as much as 46% across otherwise comparable graphics cards. Same issues with Intel CPUs, where their HT support is bungled, while the AMD HT equivalent works well. For a lot of people this might be the difference between playing on medium instead of high, or high instead of ultra, because they chose an arguably better card than Beth's corporate partner.
In the past it always seemed like game developers were trying to perform well for all gamers. Now it would seem that, as is so often the case, taking care of your corporate partners is more profitable than taking care of your customers. Suffice it to say, I'm not at all excited about giving those people $75 for their game (and I was 24 hours ago).