Microsoft's auto AI upscaler will only be available on Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ AI PCs to begin with

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for Windows, called Automatic Super Resolution . The concept behind the system is that any game can get a boost in performance and better anti-aliasing, even if it doesn't support DLSS, FSR, or XeSS. Microsoft has now made the feature available, except very few people will get to use it for now because it's only enabled on new Copilot+ AI PCs that sport Qualcomm's Snapdragon X processor.

Well, that's the idea. Reality is somewhat different, as the number of games that ASR will actually work on is currently limited to just 12. I suspect that this is because these are the only games that run well enough on the Arm version of Windows and have also passed internal testing of ASR.Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.

I strongly suspect that you're going to be out of luck, as Microsoft is unlikely to change its Copilot+ requirements and despite having more than enough AI performance to meet the necessary level, GPUs just aren't classed as NPUs. Automatic Super Resolution could have been the first really useful addition to Windows for a long time but as things currently stand, its arrival is going to be very much of a whisper and not the bang it deserves to be.

 

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