Discover “Super Resolution”, the future new function of Windows 11

By the end of the year, users of Windows 11 should be able to benefit from a new feature called “Super Resolution”. Based on artificial intelligence, this should considerably improve the rendering of your games, to the delight of players, but also that of developers.

While we expected to see Windows 12 arrive at the end of the year, Microsoft finally chose to capitalize on the current version of Windows for a while longer. Next fall, the Redmond firm will release what will undoubtedly be one of the most important updates to its operating system: Windows 11 24H2.

On this occasion, the American giant will obviously take the opportunity to introduce many new AI features. One of them is called “Automatic Super Resolution” and aims to make your gaming sessions more fluid and pleasing to the eye than ever!

DirectSR, Microsoft’s future revolution for video games?

During GDC 2024, held from March 18 to 22 in San Francisco, Microsoft’s DirectX branch was able to share some juicy details about their future graphics innovations. Thus, the Redmond firm took the opportunity to lift the veil around DirectSR, a new API aimed at facilitating the integration of Super Resolution into the next generation of games.

According to recent comments from Josué Tucker, programming manager at Microsoft, “ super resolution is a cutting-edge technique used to increase the resolution and visual quality of games “. Even more crucially, he asserts that “ DirectSR is the missing link that developers have been waiting for when approaching SR integration, delivering a smoother, more efficient experience that adapts to all hardware “.

By developing this approach “ multi-vendor » thanks to DirectSR, Microsoft wants “ allow a single code path to enable a variety of solutions », again according to Tucker’s statements. Consequently, DirectSR is not intended to replace NVIDIA’s DLSS, AMD’s FSR or even Intel’s XeSS. Microsoft seeks above all to help developers by simplifying “ support for upsampling on Windows devices “.

Windows 11 Auto SR will use the power of AI to improve your games

Although it is not developing its own oversampling technology, the company led by Satya Nadella is nevertheless working on a function aimed at improving the definition of the graphics of your video games in Windows 11. Expected for the end of the year when of the publication of the 24H2 update, this function, called “Automatic Super Resolution”, will allow you toupscale the definition of your screen when you play thanks to the capabilities of artificial intelligence. To activate it, simply switch the small toggle button to the “On” position.

As a reminder, the latest Insider build of Windows 11 allowed us to discover this function for the first time.upscaling automatically from the operating system screen settings. Although it still remained inactive several weeks ago, it nevertheless allowed us to confirm the involvement of AI for “ make supported games smoother with improved details “.

Source : Windows Latest