Microsoft is planning to bring its AI-powered Super Resolution upscaling technology to Windows 11, incorporating the upscaler into various non-gaming applications., users have located a new feature called “Automatic Super Resolution” in the latest developer build of Windows 11 Insider. The dev build says Automatic Super Resolution uses AI to upscale videos and deliver smoother experiences across multiple apps.
Would you like to toy around with Automatic Super Resolution in build 26052 and see if you notice any differences? You can get it to show up by running this command and rebooting:the feature as a system-level upscaler, and that Automatic Super Resolution is “highly likely” to work with all Windows apps, which would include Microsoft Photos.suggests it will require a computer with NPU cores, like Intel’s upcoming Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake CPUs, or a GPU with tensor cores..
Microsoft is also developing a system-level color management system that promises improved color and HDR performance, which will be a welcome change for photo and video editors. And as mentioned, real-time upscaling technology has been a major part of high-end PC gaming in recent years. However, implementing such a feature at the system level is a major step forward.
Of course, just because Microsoft has introduced Automatic Super Resolution to a developer build of Windows 11 does not mean that the feature will be imminently released to the public., specifically for streaming video content. Introduced as “video super resolution” nearly a year ago, the feature rquires specific graphics cards and only works on videos that are less than 720p resolution. The computer must also be directly powered from an outlet to perform VSR.