In the absence of any explosive hot new exclusive video games, Microsoft still has some legendary software engineering tricks up their sleeve. Right now Game Pass is arguably the biggest feature of their ecosystem, but I think that FPS Boost may one day be a close second, especially for fans of legacy Xbox content like myself.
You’ll need to own an Xbox Series X or S to take advantage of the FPS Boost program, which only supports a small handful of titles so far but also only launched a couple of weeks ago. Essentially, games that are added to the FPS Boost list get at least a doubled level of frame rate performance, without any need for the developer of the game to push out a new patch. All of the work is done internally by the backwards compatibility team at Microsoft. They can use the Xbox OS and DirectX to take control of an individual game’s renderer, and allow it access to the extra power and speed of the new consoles without making massive changes to the game’s original code.
The only caveat is that a couple of supported titles do need to drop down a little bit from a full 4K…
