Back in February 2024, we informed you about a new Super Resolution tech that MS was testing in Windows 11. And earlier today, the company officially revealed this tech, which will be called Auto SR.
Auto SR, also known as Automatic Super Resolution, will only work on Windows 11 and it will not support Windows 10. Not only that but it will require a Copilot+ PC with a Qualcomm Snapdragon X processor with Hexagon NPU and an integrated GPU. In other words, this tech will be useless for 95% of PC gamers.
Auto SR works like NVIDIA DLSS and Intel XeSS. Auto SR will be using AI techniques in order to upscale and enhance the image quality of a game that runs on lower resolutions. However, we don’t know how well the initial version of it will look like. Will it be able to come close to DLSS 3 or Intel XeSS 1.3? Or will it suffer from the same issues that plagued the first versions of these techs?
Auto SR will be supported in most games that run on DirectX 11 or DirectX 12. It will also be compatible with emulated x64 or Arm64 native platforms. However, it will not be compatible with DirectX 11/12 games using certain formats (such as 10-bit formats), x86-only games and other graphics runtimes including DirectX 9, Vulkan, OpenGL.
Do note that Auto SR will be applied by default to a set of games verified by Microsoft. It will NOT work in all games like AFMF or Lossless Scaling Frame Generation do. The first games that support it are Borderlands 3, God of War, and The Witcher 3.
Honestly, I’m really disappointed with how Auto SR turned out. We all thought it would work for everyone using Windows 11. But, as MS stated, it will only work on certain processors. Because of this, most PC gamers probably won’t use it. And, let’s be realistic here. Does MS think that this feature will boost the sales of Copilot+ PCs?
I also think developers won’t bother with it either. That is unless Microsoft makes them put it in some games. Okay okay, we all know that some of its first-party studios will support Auto SR. And, imagine if a game comes out that only supports Auto SR and not DLSS, XeSS or FSR. Now that will be hilarious.
You can read more details about Auto SR on its official website. Man, what a huge disappointment!
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LOL. What a dumpster fire.
Watch this be inferior to FSR, XeSS, or even AFMF and LSFG.
At best it will be software levels of FSR with any broad solution that makes it pointless. It won’t hold a candle to DLSS, DLAA, DLDSR. It was a non story pimped by MS influencers/sellouts just like everything MS does.
also your soul and your browsing history.
how disappointing
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Come on John, I’ve heard Copilot+ will revolutionize Windows, by just adding a tiny bit of bloat to an otherwise super efficient OS!
BTW, Microsoft uses Linux to power their Azure cloud infrastructure, where compute efficiency equals money.
Really makes you wonder why, though…
The modders wil sort it out.
Guess what? Microshit is actively blocking customization softwares now.
That statement does not even make sense.
Windows=
Only made DX 12 when FORCED by the industry who was leaving them behind with FREE solutions like Vulkan that are faster than DX 12.
Only leveraged SSD’s (poorly) in games when Sony was doing it for years with 2-3 second load times on games like Spiderman, while corrupt journalism spun it as a MS creation.
Broken memory management that requires things like ISLC in extended play sessions in some games because Windows cares more about laptop users than gamers.
Broken performance due to TPM 2.0 integrations which puts insane things on by default. Ancient Gameplays recently discovered one of these settings with core isolation/memory integrity. These can’t work without TPM 2.0 on in the BIOS btw.
DX 9 and 11 support that is now MUCH slower than Vulkan API solutions like DXVK.
Core Parking that is often broken.
Annoying updates that MS doesn’t even have good testing QA on anymore as they expect users to be their beta test. If you have Pro and know what you are doing in the group policy you can manually turn them off.
We need MS like we need a hole in the head. DX 12 is slower than free DX 9 and 11 games are now slower than free, Windows is slower than free and intrusive. There is a reason MS just spent all this money on companies to milk nostalgia from imbeciles with bad games. Without that we would be free of the prison MS has created. People spend money on an OS that should be going towards a GPU.
What baffled me is how it can be games running on steamdeck (that still use some kind interpreter to run it) more optimised and performance compared to games run natively on the windows handheld device
It’s because one company is actually run by gamers and the other company is run by suits who discuss how to still make themselves needed, when they haven’t been needed for years. Their recent solution was to buy a bunch of game companies to churn out endless creatively bankrupt content. These games have zero chance to be good because MS doesn’t really care. They are only there so they can be a middle man between you and the hardware.
If you really want to know how a company like MS/Apple got started and what they are about, the only entertainment that was remotely accurate was “Pirates of Silicon Valley”. Can find it for free on internet archive. These corporations hijacked what people made and put themselves between you and the tech. That started with the very first “Micosoft DOS” that MS never created. They bought it. Linux tried to free you again and that is why they astroturf and attack it with endless sockpuppets on every forum. See Goodbytes on the Linus Tech Tips forum as a great example of that. So brazen he uses a sockpuppet as his avatar.
And more recently MS bought OpenAI just so they could make it closed source and keep it all to themselves.
That goes to show how much bloated windows is and microshit literally owes pcgamers free performance out of their own rigs.
How to stop updates btw. Just copy and paste this to a notepad file and revert whenever you manually want to take a chance on MS’s updates once they have been tested by USERS for a few months.
Open gpedit.msc
Navigate to Computer Configuration –> Administrative Templates –> Windows Component –> Windows Update.
Set the following policies:
Configure automatic updates: disable
Do not allow update deferral policies to cause scans against Windows update : enable
Remove access to use all Windows update features : enable
Do not include drivers with Windows updates: enable
Do not connect to any Windows update internet locations : enable
Specify intranet Microsoft update location : enable, then fill with blank single space on each these fields: set the intranet update service for detecting updates, set the intranet statistics server, and set the alternate download server.
Updates should now be completely off. The only caveat is that you can’t use MS’s worthless store unless you sideload things. Existing apps that are already there work fine though.
No thanks. I am quite satisfied with Lossless Scaling since it does not require me to completely sign away the small amount of privacy I have remaining running Windows 11.
Oct. next year is the end of extended support for Win 10 and MS is going to have to push people really hard to get them on Win 11 so that they can begin the process of pushing people off Win 11 onto the next Windows.
The last I read around 67% are still using Win 10. It’s going to be another battle for MS like when they had to push people off Win 7.
Windows 7 was the last good Windows, imo. It finally took my old PC dying to nudge me off of it. Now I’m using a pirated and modified Win 10 Pro at home which I will hold on to for dear life knowing they’re only going to get worse and not better what with the company being run by a retarded pajeet now.
I hate this Copilot Bloatware & Spyware nonsense MS is adding to Windows
Why can’t they just make an efficient OS that gets from my way and be done with it
Why everything they touch have to turn into data mining & ad pushing to collect that last cent
MS is a creepy company
The spying of Windows 11 wasn’t enough yet.
Now they are going to add even more bloat, with “AI”. So Microsoft can give dumb replies like Google’s AI that recommends you eat glue and eat rocks.
Soon you will need a 16-core beast of a PC just to open the calculator app. The amount of software bloat is insane.
I remember when calculator wasn’t a sh**ty app that didn’t look like it belonged on a phone. The Applefication of Windows disgusts me more than anything.
Micro$oft with their clueless out of touch sense of what actual customer wanted, seems like they are trying to hard to hoard the AI fad waves and make stakeholder, not customer, happy …lol.
They didnt realised AI will only able to fooling the masses once Apple released their product boasting about it, meanwhile M$ as always will be too fast, too hurry and too undercooked as usual.
Remind me the time of hololens, windows phone, win8, windows PDA (my office used it back then, the sync process involving cradle and their mobilesync windows programs become almost my daily support case )
This company has become so fantastically retarded.
Let them dig their own grave.
So another featyres nobody asked for with hardware restrictions nobody asked nor will likely use (qaulcomm).
Hard pass on everything “they want”.
Remember when WIndows just worked and wasn’t an intrusive POS?
Why isn’t Valve making an alternative OS so that we can get rid of the parasite M$?
Windows is trash…if not for gaming, there is ABSOLUTELY NO NEED FOR IT!
Thank God Linux is catching up on that front.
Microshit, what a lying c*nt. They still haven’t let go of their egotistical exclusivity nonsense and yet most guillible gamers get fooled by their empty rhetorics.
The article is misleading because both AMD and Intel are set to include AI accelerators in their upcoming CPUs, which will enable support for Copilot+ features, such as Auto SR.
Regarding the Windows 11 requirement, it is a given considering Windows 10 support will end in 2025.
The remainer is hardly unexpected; manufacturer features are unsurpassed, and Microsoft consistently provides limited and generic options for those that can’t use the manufacturer options.