Intel is working on improving XeSS (Xe Super Sampling) support on Linux, with a new series of patches aiming to enable hardware-accelerated XeSS upscaling through Valve’s Proton compatibility layer. The proposed changes would allow supported Intel Arc GPUs to take advantage of their dedicated XMX (Xe Matrix Extensions) engines when running Windows games on Linux, potentially delivering substantially better upscaling performance. As reported by Phoronix, Intel engineer Damian Tomczak has submitted four interconnected pull requests targeting Proton, Wine, VKD3D-Proton, and DXVK. Together, these changes address a longstanding limitation that has prevented XeSS from fully utilizing Intel’s dedicated AI acceleration hardware […]
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