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Microsoft: FSR 4.1 Coming "Very Soon" to Xbox Game Developers for Series X, Series S
Digital Foundry • • technology
Key Points:
- Xbox vice president Jason Ronald announced that game developers will soon have access to AMD's latest FSR 4.1 upscaling technology on Xbox, following AMD's recent expansion of FSR to new platforms.
- This update is significant for Xbox Series X and Series S, as Microsoft's machine learning hardware included since 2020 has not yet been utilized for upscaling, unlike Sony's use of PSSR and QSSR on PS5 consoles.
- The implementation of FSR 4.1 appears to require developers to integrate the technology into their games individually, rather than Microsoft providing a system-level upgrade for existing titles.
- FSR 4.1 promises improved upscaling quality compared to previous versions and will be compared with other technologies like Epic's TSR and Sony's QSSR and PSSR in future game releases.
- Microsoft has also collaborated with Asus and AMD to enable FSR 4.1 support on Xbox Ally handheld devices, with comparisons underway against other handhelds such as the Intel-powered Acer Predator Atlas 8 using XeSS 3 technology.
