XeSS SDK 2.1.1

What's Changed

This release adds XeSS-FG support for Meteor Lake integrated GPUs and resolves issues reported for 2.1.0:

• XeSS-SR
  • Improves error reporting when creating context on very old drivers
  • Fixes rare crashes on Vulkan
  • Fixes VUID-VkShaderModuleCreateInfo-pCode-08737 validation error on AMD
  • Improves basic samples: #39
• XeLL
  • Fixes timestamp resolution error when application does not submit RENDER_START marker
• XeSS-FG
  • Partially addresses #40 by improving XeSS-FG load and context initialization times
  • Fixes crashes reported in #48 and #47
  • Allows tagging UNTIL_PRESENT resources without command list: #45
  • Fixes inverted depth initialization flag: #50 - XeSS-FG will now respect the flag.
  • Fixes out-of-bounds errors found by GPU-based validation
  • Reduces log spam

XeSS SDK 2.1.0

Introducing XeSS Frame Generation with Xe Low Latency support for non-Intel GPUs:

• Requires Shader Model 6.4 support
• Standalone XeLL is not supported on non-Intel GPUs

XeSS Super Resolution Vulkan API Enhancements:

• Improved error reporting
• Improved Vulkan validation layer support
• Bug fixes and stability improvements

XeSS SDK 2.0.1

• Introducing XeSS Frame Generation (XeSS-FG)
• Introducing Xe Low Latency (XeLL)
• XeSS Super Resolution (XeSS-SR):
  • DirectX 12: Backwards compatible API with XeSS 1.0 & 1.1 & 1.2 & 1.3
  • Introduced Vulkan 1.1 support. Supported on Intel® Iris® Xe GPU or later, as well as other vendor GPUs supporting shaderIntegerDotProduct, shaderStorageReadWithoutFormat and mutableDescriptorType features
  • Introduced DirectX 11 support. Supported on Intel® Arc™ Graphics only.
  • Introduced float responsive mask support in range [0.0;1.0]
  • Bug Fixes & Stability Improvements

XeSS SDK 1.3.1

• Bug Fixes & Stability Improvements

XeSS SDK 1.3.0

• Backwards compatible API with XeSS 1.0 & 1.1 & 1.2
• New AI models deliver greater detail reconstruction, better anti-aliasing quality, reduced ghosting, and improved temporal stability
• New quality presets: Ultra Performance, Ultra Quality Plus, and Native Anti-Aliasing
• Increased resolution scaling for existing quality presets, delivering better performance while preserving visual fidelity

Preset	Resolution scaling in previous XeSS versions	Resolution scaling in XeSS 1.3
Native Anti-Aliasing	N/A	1.0x (Native resolution)
Ultra Quality Plus	N/A	1.3x
Ultra Quality	1.3x	1.5x
Quality	1.5x	1.7x
Balanced	1.7x	2.0x
Performance	2.0x	2.3x
Ultra Performance	N/A	3.0x
Off	Turns Intel XeSS off	Turns Intel XeSS off

XeSS SDK 1.2.0

• Backwards compatible API with XeSS 1.0 & 1.1
• Support for dynamic resolution scaling
• Bug fixes, stability improvements and performance optimizations
• New combined libxess.dll library to be redistributed with the application

XeSS SDK 1.1.0

• Backwards compatible API with XeSS 1.0
• Updated XeSS models with improved temporal stability
• Support for Auto Exposure of input frames
• API added to detect if recommended Intel driver version is installed
• Removed dependency on dxcompiler.dll and dxil.dll
• Bug fixes, stability improvements and performance optimizations
• On Intel platforms, the graphics driver version 31.0.101.4148 or newer is required
• No new driver requirement for non-Intel hardware

XeSS SDK 1.0.1

• Bugfixes for 1.0 release
• Added Chinese Developer Guide

XeSS SDK 1.0

Initial XeSS SDK 1.0 release