Subj : Faster games for all? Microsofts DirectSR could be the upscaling
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Mon Feb 26 2024 14:30:06

Faster games for all? Microsofts DirectSR could be the upscaling breakthrough 
PC gamers have been praying for

Date:
Mon, 26 Feb 2024 14:27:39 +0000

Description:
Microsoft has a session at GDC 2024 next month where itll unveil a mysterious 
new upscaling tech for Windows 11.

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Microsoft is cooking up a new tech for PC gamers called DirectSR (DirectX 
Super Resolution, apparently) which will be revealed at GDC 2024 next month. 

The revelation came from VideoCardz , which found details of a session at the 
Game Developers Conference on March 21, where Microsoft will provide a 
preview of DirectSR (with an AMD and Nvidia engineer involved in the 
presentation). 

So, the key question here, obviously enough, is: What is DirectSR exactly? 
Well, there are no actual details provided as to what the tech consists of in 
the session blurb. 

It sounds like upscaling trickery along the lines of Nvidia DLSS or AMD FSR 
(or indeed Intel XeSS), but those are targeted features that require support 
built in by the game developer ( or modders, in some games  but that gets 
wonky in these unofficial cases). 

What seems most probable is that DirectSR will be some sort of global 
upscaling tech, so this could be a feature along the lines of AMDs Radeon 
Super Resolution (RSR) . Or some kind of method of more easily facilitating 
upscaling across PC games more broadly, whichever GPU you might own. 
Analysis: Upscaling puzzle 

We cant be sure what DirectSR will actually be, then, but we can be hopeful 
that its an important piece of the puzzle for bringing broader upscaling, and 
therefore faster frame rates, to a wider selection of games. 

Whats also of interest here is whether this is tied into another recent leak, 
whereby an Automatic Super Resolution feature was discovered hidden in 
Windows 11 test builds . 

Could this be related to DirectSR? Well, perhaps it might be given the 
timing, as it sounds like Automatic Super Resolution will be a widely 
applicable upscaling feature for games (and maybe more) that uses AI. (Either 
hardware on-board the GPU, like Nvidias Tensor cores on RTX graphics cards, 
or an NPU or Neural Processing Unit , which are now bolted onto processors 
such as Meteor Lake chips). 

Whatever the case, theres an increasing suggestion that exciting things are 
afoot for Windows 11 gamers. In theory, Automatic Super Resolution might 
debut with Windows 11 24H2 , although because its not actually even in 
testing yet, we need to be careful about leaping to any conclusions. 

Roll on GDC 2024 so we get to find out more about DirectSR, and exactly where 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/gaming/pc-gaming/faster-games-for-all-microsofts-dir
ectsr-could-be-the-upscaling-breakthrough-pc-gamers-have-been-praying-for


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