Microsoft Releases DirectSR to Integrate Multiple Super-Resolution Technologies

By:Sophia Published 2024-05-29T23:38:40Z

TapTechNews on May 30th, Microsoft today released a press release announcing the release of DirectSR in preview form, integrating and supporting AMD's FSR, Intel's XeSS and NVIDIA's DLSS, the 'ed, blue and green' three super-resolution (SuperResolution) technologies.

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DirectSR is a brand-new API with the aim of standardizing SR support in D3D12 games, facilitating developers' use of a single code path to seamlessly integrate DLSS, FSR and XeSS into DirectX12 games.

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DirectSR is now available through Microsoft's AgilitySDK 1.714.0 preview version with built-in FSR2.2 support. The support for DLSS and XeSS by DirectSR can be obtained through the latest drivers of Intel and NVIDIA.

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Microsoft's new API has achieved multi-vendor upgrades through a set of common inputs and outputs, unifying AMD's, Intel's and NVIDIA's upgrade solutions under one interface.

TapTechNews note: Previously, if a game wanted to implement super-resolution technology, in addition to using plugins such as Unreal Engine 5 with dedicated sampling, developers needed to implement it manually using a separate SDK. Now, through Microsoft's DirectSR, three upsampling techniques can be implemented at once, reducing the workload for developers to integrate DLSS, FSR and XeSS into the game.

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Technically speaking, the functionality of DirectSR has already appeared in NVIDIA's StreamlineSDK, which has been launched for two years but has not been widely used to integrate other functions besides DLSS.