Newer Intel XeSS has been added to two popular games
Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora have been updated to support the latest XeSS. Support for this upscaling tech was already confirmed for Avatar in December, but the game has only been updated to support it now. Here, developers are not confirming which version specifically is supported.
Avatar already supports NVIDIA DLSS 2 and AMD FSR3, making it one of the few games on the market that supports all major technologies. It would be even better if Ubisoft added DLSS3 support, though, especially now that Frame Generation has already been implemented.
AVATAR: FRONTIERS OF PANDORA – TITLE UPDATE 3.2
Title Update 3.2 will begin going live on April 23rd at 8:00 AM UTC / 10:00 AM CEST / 1:00 AM PDT
TU3.2 PATCH SIZES:
- PS5 – 2,4 GB
- Xbox Series X/S – 3.1 GB
- PC – 3 GB
NOTABLE IMPROVEMENTS:
- (Xbox Series X/S, PS5) Added a 40 FPS mode.
- (PC) Enabled Intel XeSS Super Sampling. (…)
Moving on to the Horizon game series, the Forbidden West Complete Edition has received support for Intel’s latest XeSS 1.3. As we have already mentioned in the XeSS 1.3 launch post, the updated profiles should offer similar quality at higher upscaling effect. The profiles have changed, and the game is now indeed rendered at a lower resolution, but Intel suggests that the quality will be the same while the benefit of higher performance is still there.
This is also one of the first games to officially support the new XeSS Native AA feature, an alternative to NVIDIA DLAA, which is the antialiasing tech from the upscaling tech, but without the actual upscaling.
Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition 1.3.55.0 Release Notes
Improved the visual quality of dust.
- Added Interface Text Size option in the General Settings menu.
- Improvements to texture streaming to reduce memory usage and improve quality.
- Updated Intel XeSS to version 1.3 with improved image quality and new XeSS Native AA option. (…)
Source: Nixxes, Ubisoft
