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Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass platform just got a big boost with the addition of 20 new titles from Bethesda Softworks starting today, and now a quarter of those games will get performance improvements on next-gen Xbox consoles in an upcoming one. upgrade. The performance gains are in the frame rate thanks to an appropriately named new feature Microsoft revealed last month called FPS Boost, which can roughly double the frame rates of older games using new Xbox hardware without requiring let the developers do any manual work.
Games that will see performance improvements with frame rate jumps of up to 60 frames per second include Arkane Studios’ Dishonored: Definitive Edition Y Dam and Bethesda Game Studios’ The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition, Fallout 4, Y Fallout 76.
The announcement was made during a YouTube livestream on Friday between Xbox Live programming director Larry Hryb (aka “Major Nelson”) and chief communications officer Jeff Rubenstein, in which Rubenstein discussed the benefits that the new Xbox Series X / S may bring in older Bethesda titles. . The games, while available now, do not currently have FPS Boost mode enabled yet, but Microsoft intends to add it as an optional switch soon.
Microsoft said in its announcement yesterday that “a handful of these games will also benefit from FPS Boost on Xbox Series X / S,” although it did not specify which at the time. He also said that 16 of the 20 Bethesda games coming to Xbox Game Pass will be available on PC and xCloud, in addition to Xbox consoles. You can find a list of the platforms the games are available on here.
