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Windows 11 24H2 to Incorporate Super Resolution Upscaling Technology

Microsoft is working on bringing a new feature to Windows 11, Super Resolution, aiming to make your gaming experience even better. This sneak peek was spotted in a hidden setting within a preview version of Windows 11, set to launch later this year.

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Microsoft is working on bringing a new feature to Windows 11, Super Resolution, aiming to make your gaming experience even better. This sneak peek was spotted in a hidden setting within a preview version of Windows 11, set to launch later this year. The idea is to weave this Super Resolution feature right into Windows 11, making it super easy for it to boost the quality of your games. This hint came from a hidden gem in a test version of the upcoming Windows 11 update.

With the help of AI, Windows 11 will get a neat boost called Super Resolution. Thanks to a tip-off by @PhantomOfEarth on X (you might know it as Twitter), we learned that this feature is all about enhancing your games' visuals automatically, with some smart tech behind the scenes. You can even tweak it for each game to get things just right.

Another tech enthusiast, @Thebookisclosed, also stumbled upon this feature in the preview version of Windows 11 and shared a video on X. If you're curious, you can try it out yourself with ViveTool, which you can grab from GitHub.

To activate the feature, you'll need to open the command prompt as an administrator and enter the activation key: vivetool /enable /id:39695921 /variant:3. Make sure to do this after you've installed the tool. Once you've entered the key and restarted your computer, the feature should be up and running.

My guess is that this is a spatial upscaler, that works at the end of the rendering pipeline, similar to DLSS1, FSR1 and NIS.
But without access to motion vectors, color and depth buffers, it will not look anywhere as good as temporal solutions.
Still, it might be of use in some cases.

 

[The Fuzz damn you!]

One more step along the road to a cloud-gaming future, like it or not. No diubt future versions will be able to read motion vector (and other) metadata embedded in a video stream - if this takes off, of course.

 

[Kuranghi]

I wonder if it adds lag

 

[xrnzaaas]

More things to turn off each time Windows installs a big update and reverts to defaults.

 

[winjer]

I wonder if it adds lag

It will require a few ms to render. But it will probably be very fast and cheap. So it's likely most people won't notice it.

 

[Hudo]

On one hand: Cool
On the other hand: I dunno if that can be as performant as Nvidia, AMD et. al. implementing it directly on the driver side of things.

 

[GymWolf]

I'm sure it's gonna be one of the most upscaling method ever.

 

[HL3.exe]

Cool, just like reshades temporal solution... which looks terrible because it in compasses the whole image, UI and all. And without motion vectors it'll probably be one smeary mess.

But we'll see.

 

[ozz ex machina]

Need to remember to turn this off. It's cool but it won't be good in this state.

 

[Spukc]

Damn so i don’t need my 4090?
Cool cool

 

[Fake]

The game mode is already useless, so I expect the same shit.

 

[Kuranghi]

The game mode is already useless, so I expect the same shit.

What's that when it's at home?

 

[Mowcno]

There's an app on steam called Lossless scaling that I've used for this.

 

[winjer]

There's an app on steam called Lossless scaling that I've used for this.

That doesn't use AI. It's just the FSR1 algorithm.

 

[Audiophile]

It'd be nice if they fixed their 15+yr old bugs around disconnecting USB drives first.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Why would you ever use this when Nvidia, AMD, and Intel already offer driver-level features that do this?

 

[Fake]

What's that when it's at home?

Windows 10 anf Windows 11 have an option in their UWA settings, game section.

He say that turn things off to improve game, but no difference whatsoever.

 

[KuraiShidosha]

Christ almighty I hate what's become of my hobby. Fuck Windows, fuck Microsoft, I'm so done with all this forced garbage changes bullshit.

 

[SomeGit]

Christ almighty I hate what's become of my hobby. Fuck Windows, fuck Microsoft, I'm so done with all this forced garbage changes bullshit.

Are you really seething this much over an optional setting in the OS? Christ almighty, just turn it off.

 

[deriks]

Remember "power of the cloud"? This is him now

 

[Magic Carpet]

Are you really seething this much over an optional setting in the OS? Christ almighty, just turn it off.

I'm still trying to figure out how to turn off the Game Bar menu, and keep it off.

 

[SomeGit]

I'm still trying to figure out how to turn off the Game Bar menu, and keep it off.

But Game Bar's default is on, this is off. You can only get it if you go out of your way to enable it.

 

[FIREKNIGHT2029]

Sounds unnecessary for my 4090. Another useless feature I'll probably have to turn off if it comes on by default.

 

[Senua]

Sounds unnecessary for my 4090.

 

[Tomi]

Will they finally fix hdr this time

 

[Sethbacca]

On the one hand, kind of cool, but on the other I absolutely loathe modern Windows. I try not to be all "Get off my lawn" about shit, but can MS just stop hiding shit 50 clicks deep and leave a mode where people that know what they're doing can access shit without all of the fucking safety rails? I hate windows 11.....

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

Sounds.. interesting. I declined the Windows 11 update, did I make error?

 

[Magic Carpet]

Why would you ever use this when Nvidia, AMD, and Intel already offer driver-level features that do this?

I'm currently playing the Tomb Raider reboots for the first time.
The first game does not have DLSS, I wonder if this might help with that. Though my 4070 can play the first Tomb Raider at 4K 60 with FXAA, If I use SSAA it drops below 60 in certain areas.
Rise and Shadow of the Tomb Raider both have DLSS as an option.

 

[Bojji]

I'm currently playing the Tomb Raider reboots for the first time.
The first game does not have DLSS, I wonder if this might help with that. Though my 4070 can play the first Tomb Raider at 4K 60 with FXAA, If I use SSAA it drops below 60 in certain areas.
Rise and Shadow of the Tomb Raider both have DLSS as an option.

Shadow DLSS is 1.0 so it's garbage.

 

[Filben]

Though my 4070 can play the first Tomb Raider at 4K 60 with FXAA, If I use SSAA it drops below 60 in certain areas.

IIRC the game offers MSAA. In that case you could try Nvidia's MFAA option. It offers better image quality than pure MSAA but is also less taxing. It's of course not like DLSS at all, but it might help you wither better IQ than FXAA while mainting better FPS than with SSAA.

 

[winjer]

Shadow DLSS is 1.0 so it's garbage.

Shadow and Rise of the Tomb Raider got updated to DLSS 2 in 2021.
And they also support XeSS. And the FSR2 mod also works.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Shadow DLSS is 1.0 so it's garbage.

I am still on the First game but I ran the Benchmarking tool built into Rise and Shadow and the DLSS seemed to work well in those benches.

 

[Bojji]

Shadow and Rise of the Tomb Raider got updated to DLSS 2 in 2021.
And they also support XeSS. And the FSR2 mod also works.

I am still on the First game but I ran the Benchmarking tool built into Rise and Shadow and the DLSS seemed to work well in those benches.

Rise for sure has 2.0 but I didn't know they updated Shadow too. Good to know.

 

[Dorfdad]

It'd be nice if they fixed their 15+yr old bugs around disconnecting USB drives first.

Just go to power settings and always allow power fixed my issues

 

[Moses85]

This results in any kind of positive result?

 

[KuraiShidosha]

Are you really seething this much over an optional setting in the OS? Christ almighty, just turn it off.

Yes I am because it's just another layer of forced trash they're piling onto the trash heap that is Windows. It's another setting I'll have to disable every time I format or get a major update, it's another layer of compatibility problems I have to worry about in the future. Same shit for their fullscreen optimizations that broke so many games back in 2017, same as their hardware accelerated GPU scheduler that's causing stutters in games and especially VR, and other issues like Chrome checkerboard artifacting which is 100% a Windows problem and won't be fixed until some insider build gets pushed to public. It's a mess and I'm sick of it.

 

[poodaddy]

Yes I am because it's just another layer of forced trash they're piling onto the trash heap that is Windows. It's another setting I'll have to disable every time I format or get a major update, it's another layer of compatibility problems I have to worry about in the future. Same shit for their fullscreen optimizations that broke so many games back in 2017, same as their hardware accelerated GPU scheduler that's causing stutters in games and especially VR, and other issues like Chrome checkerboard artifacting which is 100% a Windows problem and won't be fixed until some insider build gets pushed to public. It's a mess and I'm sick of it.

I feel your pain though. I have a love hate relationship with Windows. I like Linux but it's compatibility issues are exhausting, I also find the community far too fragmented so it can be frustrating to troubleshoot anything, what with their being several different distros and what not. I kinda hate that Windows keeps trying to fix something that isn't broken, but then again I get the theory behind why this kind of stuff is potentially cool and useful, though it almost always never works out as intended.

For example, I was a fan of game mode for the most part when it was announced, as I figured it sounds great to shut everything off and give your PC exclusive focus to gaming when it's on.....only....somehow it does precisely the opposite of that and seems to cause issues with games minimizing and stuttering, which is precisely the entire reason for its existence so that's tough to swallow.

Edge's integration with AI should have made it better, it should have just been a clearly useful tool.....and yet somehow searching on Edge, (and Chrome now too), is still godawful. So what happened?

This should be just a handy tool that one can use if they want and hopefully it will be an easy toggle if you don't like it.....maybe they won't screw that up? History, yeah I know, but hey, might work out this time. Optimism is free, perhaps a bit naive, and it keeps the blood pressure low, so I'll go with that until we know for sure.

 

[SomeGit]

Yes I am because it's just another layer of forced trash they're piling onto the trash heap that is Windows. It's another setting I'll have to disable every time I format or get a major update, it's another layer of compatibility problems I have to worry about in the future. Same shit for their fullscreen optimizations that broke so many games back in 2017, same as their hardware accelerated GPU scheduler that's causing stutters in games and especially VR, and other issues like Chrome checkerboard artifacting which is 100% a Windows problem and won't be fixed until some insider build gets pushed to public. It's a mess and I'm sick of it.

It’s off by default, just don’t enable it, you are being overly dramatic over an option.

 

[Mercador]

At least, it's a toggle. With HDR Windows integration, it still buggy at times.

 

[KuraiShidosha]

It’s off by default, just don’t enable it, you are being overly dramatic over an option.

For now.

 

[Ozriel]

Christ almighty I hate what's become of my hobby. Fuck Windows, fuck Microsoft, I'm so done with all this forced garbage changes bullshit.

Your hobby is cataloguing OS features? Weird

Yes I am because it's just another layer of forced trash they're piling onto the trash heap that is Windows. It's another setting I'll have to disable every time I format or get a major update, it's another layer of compatibility problems I have to worry about in the future. Same shit for their fullscreen optimizations that broke so many games back in 2017, same as their hardware accelerated GPU scheduler that's causing stutters in games and especially VR, and other issues like Chrome checkerboard artifacting which is 100% a Windows problem and won't be fixed until some insider build gets pushed to public. It's a mess and I'm sick of it.

Turn it off, then. Not exactly rocket science. Not sure what this has to do with 'compatibility' or whatever.

 

[Lillie]

Is this for people without a GPU? Who is this aimed for realistically if you don't already have DLSS or FSR

 

[twilo99]

Is this for people without a GPU? Who is this aimed for realistically if you don't already have DLSS or FSR

I’m guessing Intel based systems without dedicated GPUs

Could it work with ARM? Potentially..

 

[KuraiShidosha]

Your hobby is cataloguing OS features? Weird



Turn it off, then. Not exactly rocket science. Not sure what this has to do with 'compatibility' or whatever.

My hobby is PC gaming, don't be obtuse.
I already outlined why "just turn it off" is an annoying "solution" to this new addition. It better be off by default like the other guy said.

 

[Hudo]

Why would you ever use this when Nvidia, AMD, and Intel already offer driver-level features that do this?

This. The only interesting application area would be if Microsoft made it accessible directly via DirectX. Then I could see it being of value.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

It will require a few ms to render. But it will probably be very fast and cheap. So it's likely most people won't notice it.

I would need to see the numbers.

 

[Xion_Stellar]

I'm going to need instructions on how to disable this nonsense if it's turned on automatically from the get go.

I don't need AIs and upscalers in my games I rather render things the normal way.

 

[winjer]

Microsoft DirectX DirectSR "Super Resolution" Technology To Debut At GDC, Working With AMD & NVIDIA

Microsoft is all set to make an appearance at the GDC 2024, where they are expected to unveil the "DirectSR" technology.

wccftech.com

The DirectX team will showcase the latest updates, demos, and best practices for game development with key partners from AMD and NVIDIA. Work graphs are the newest way to take full advantage of GPU hardware and parallelize workloads. Microsoft will provide a preview into DirectSR, making it easier than ever for game devs to scale super resolution support across Windows devices.

 

[TrebleShot]

Coming to xBox when?

 

[Snake29]

I'm going to need instructions on how to disable this nonsense if it's turned on automatically from the get go.

I don't need AIs and upscalers in my games I rather render things the normal way.

See the first screenshot. Both these options will be under graphics settings.

I see only more settings which i'm going to disable.