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Xbox Series X Just Gave An Fps Boost To A Ton Of Games

by Priyansh Sidhwani
May 5, 2021
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Xbox Series X Just Gave An Fps Boost To A Ton Of Games

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If you’re one of those who refuse to play on Xbox One because the 30 FPS cap is too high, then playing titles at 60fps will be really refreshing. It actually makes games like Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag and Battlefield 4 much more entertaining, and that could finally change. Again, FPS Boost will not work with all Xbox One games, and Microsoft will need the approval of game publishers before it is released for all games. But FPS Boost could be a big deal for many games, not just for the console itself, but for gamers as well.

Yesterday Microsoft promised to announce new Xbox One games that support FPS Boost in the coming weeks, and a long list of candidates has already been released. Last week it was announced that Xbox will release a new version of the game engine for the upcoming Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag and Battlefield 4.

Initially, titles like New Super Lucky’s Tale on Xbox Series S and Xbox will have an FPS boost of up to 60 FPS. on X. Which is also improved to 60 fps on the Xbox S with a maximum 60 frames per second (FPS) boost.

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With the Xbox Series X and S shipped in November, we will see game developers update their games to ensure they run as well as possible on the new console. There are also some games that have been fully optimized for the Xbox X & S series and still offer frame rates and graphics improvements on these new consoles. Some of these titles have been rebuilt with Microsoft’s new Scarlett Dev kit, but as we focus on FPS enhancements for Xbox One generation games, we have decided to make a list of games that we believe should see similar improvements on Xbox Series S and X.

You can switch to your backward-compatible game, manage the game, then go to the compatibility options tab and go to “Opt-in.” You can then press “Activate Game” and as expected, there is an opt-in feature And you can increase the frame rate of older games. Microsoft announced today that the Xbox X and Z series will increase frame rates for older games. A good example of this is Cyberpunk 2077, which offers a graphics performance mode for series that is not available on Xbox One X.

However, not all games will be upgradeable, as some games bind certain game features to frame rates, such as the ability to switch to a new game mode.

Microsoft has started the thing with Watch Dogs 2 and Halo 5: Guardians of the Galaxy S4.

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A New Super Lucky’s Tale was enormously popular on Gamepass, quadrupling the frames from 30 to 120 FPS. Contrary to rumors, Microsoft has announced a new feature for the Xbox One X that allows the more powerful console to automatically increase frame rates for backward compatible games. Since Microsoft also promises an FPS boost feature on the Next-Gen console, which comes in the spring, it looks like a lot more backward-compatible games will support the FPS boost function.

Gears of War 4 is also on this list and seems to confirm that its campaign now supports 4K at 60 FPS, something that did not make it on the Xbox One. Spartan Assault runs with a whopping 120 FPS and Watch Dogs: Life is Strange runs at an even higher frame – at a speed of 100 FPS on the Xbox 360.

The FPS boost is Microsoft’s way of introducing support for this set of backward compatibility titles by doubling the frame rate from 30 fps to 60 fps.

While the first five FPS Boost titles were a pretty colorful assortment, we’ve seen Microsoft focus on games from the newly acquired Bethesda and push up the frame rate of games like Fallout 4, Fallout: New Vegas, and Fallout 3. What is impressive about the FPS enhancement is that, according to Microsoft, it requires little (or in some cases zero) work from developers. Microsoft provided the boost for all of its back-to-back – to – future games on the Xbox One X by disabling auto-HDR, but only for games where it didn’t work quite right.

This means that older, less popular games that are unlikely to be reworked or have received the next patches will have radically improved performance when they receive the FPS boost treatment.

This is exciting for games that never made it to the PC and get stuck on consoles like the Xbox One. Microsoft and Xbox have recently announced a number of new features for the console in the form of Xbox 360 and Windows 10, as well as a number of other new features and improvements.

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Hi! I'm Priyansh, I write articles about gaming news here at Techstory. To get in touch E-mail: Priyansh@connasys.com.

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