Xbox Developers Now Have Full Access to AMD FidelityFX Tools Apr 20, 2021 18:42 EDT
Microsoft’s Xbox consoles share most of their big games with the PC, and going forward, crossplay development is going to be just a little bit easier. Today during Microsoft’s Game Stack Live event, it was announced that AMD FidelityFX is now fully supported on Xbox Series X/S. Here’s what AMD had to say about FidelityFX entering the console space…
Today, we are very happy to announce that AMD FidelityFX is now available for Xbox! This news makes it even easier than before to write cross-platform games, with developers able to access select AMD FidelityFX effects with specific optimizations for Windows and Xbox. Game developers can now utilize further platform-specific optimizations with AMD FidelityFX, straight from the Xbox Series X|S Game Development Kit.
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One small step to cross-platform development on April 21, 2021, 13:03
What just happened? During Microsoft Game Stack Live 2021, AMD announced it has made available the FidelityFX feature set for Microsoft Xbox Series X|S developers. As you probably know, the Xbox is powered by an 8-core AMD Zen 2 CPU and an RDNA 2-class GPU. From now on, we should start seeing Xbox Series X|S games featuring AMD FidelityFX s Variable Shading, Contrast Adaptive Sharpening, and even the recently updated Denoiser.
AMD Fidelity FX is an open-source package of technologies with cross-platform support used to improve graphics quality without sacrificing the game s performance. FidelityFX already features eight technologies, including Contrast Adaptive Sharpening (CAS), Combined Adaptive Compute Ambient Occlusion (CACAO), variable rate shading (VRS), Stochastic Screen Space Reflections (SSSR), Denoiser, Luminance Preserving Mapper (LPM), Single Pass Downsampler (SPD), and Parallel
Back when the Xbox Series X/S consoles were announced, we knew that Microsoft went for a fully-featured RDNA 2 GPU for the system, enabling compatibility with FidelityFX features. Now, AMD’s additional graphics and performance enhancing features are officially coming to Xbox consoles, paving the way for these features to become more widely used by both …
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