EA wants Battlefield 6 to run great without relying on DLSS: 'Our goal is for everything to be performant without a lot of extra stuff'

The last time graphics technology really knocked my socks off was the advent of DLSS, Nvidia's supersampling tech that lets you boost performance by rendering games at lower resolutions and upscaling them in real time.

DLSS, and to a lesser extent AMD's FSR, still feel like a magic trick, but it's not without sacrifice: Despite years of version upgrades and AI bolstering, upscaling can still produce muddy shadows, ghosting artifacts, and introduce noticeable latency in many games. Increasingly, big-budget games are not treating upscaling as an option, but an expectation in system requirements. Battlefield 6 is a notable exception.

"There are pros and cons to a lot of those different technologies … Our goal is for everything to be performant without a lot of extra stuff."

bf6 system requirements — (Image credit: EA)

You can see its relative graphical modesty on screen: Battlefield 6 looked great in the beta, but it's not as photoreal as other major studio games that demand gluttonous VRAM and enforce always-on raytracing. Performance comes first, and for an FPS, that's exactly what I like to hear.

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Morgan has been writing for PC Gamer since 2018, first as a freelancer and currently as a staff writer. He has also appeared on Polygon, Kotaku, Fanbyte, and PCGamesN. Before freelancing, he spent most of high school and all of college writing at small gaming sites that didn't pay him. He's very happy to have a real job now. Morgan is a beat writer following the latest and greatest shooters and the communities that play them. He also writes general news, reviews, features, the occasional guide, and bad jokes in Slack. Twist his arm, and he'll even write about a boring strategy game. Please don't, though.

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