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[BigAl01]

Some notable additions include ARK: Survival Ascended, F1 25, Silent Hill 2, and Star Wars Outlaws.

AMD has a new Radeon driver out, along with an updated FSR Technical Preview driver that expands its list of games supporting the frame rate-boosting Fidelity FX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4) technology. Since early last year, AMD has put extra emphasis on its efforts to boost frame rates with AI. Now, with the RX 9000 series in the wild, AMD’s list of FSR 4 games is growing.

If you’ll recall, AMD’s GPU news was somewhat muted at CES 2025 in January. Towards the end of the month, the company said it would launch its Radeon 9000 GPUs in March, which was a couple of months later than many had expected. At the time, AMD’s David McAfee alluded to wanting more time to bring FSR 4 to games for the RDNA4 GPUs.

“I really appreciate the excitement for RDNA4,” McAfee wrote on X in January. “We are focused on ensuring we deliver a great set of products with Radeon 9000 series. We are taking a little extra time to optimize the software stack for maximum performance and enable more FSR 4 titles. We also have a wide range of partners launching Radeon 9000 series cards, and while some have started building initial inventory at retailers, you should expect many more partner cards available at launch."

Big improvement here.

As VideoCardz points out, the new games on the FSR 4 list come via the FSR 4 Technical Preview driver. You can download it by visiting AMD’s Drivers and Support page and looking up your GPU’s model in the Drivers & Support section. If you have an RX 9000 series card, you’ll see options for AMD Adrenalin Edition and the Auto-Detect driver software, followed by the AMD FSR Technical Preview.

Load the Technical Preview driver software, and you should have FSR 4 support for loads of new (to the FSR 4 list) games. Some notable titles include ARK: Survival Ascended, F1 25, Silent Hill 2, and Star Wars Outlaws.

If you’d rather stick to the standard driver, you still have tons of games that support FSR 4. Titles that caught our attention include Assassin’s Creed: Shadows, God of War Ragnarök, Marvel Rivals, The Last of Us Part II Remastered, and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2.

Unless you want to play one of the games that require the Technical Preview, you’re just fine sticking with the standard driver. The Preview only adds FSR 4 support for certain games; it doesn’t have any extra features.

[joegreene22]

<p>FSR 4 adoption is picking up fast. Hopefully more devs start implementing it at launch rather than patching it in later.</p>

[elr77]

Not sure how, it works or how AMD will deal with GPU support, but I think because FSR 4 is so very different from FSR 3.1, devs/AMD patching FSR 4 in via the amdxcffx64.dll is likely what is going to happen for a while; till people upgrade their 6000 and 7000 series cards. AMD not releasing a replacement for the RX 7900 XTX with the 9000 series may have caused a few people to just wait till next gen. Not too sure many devs want to be running two separate versions of the same GPU manufacturer's upscaling tech.

One of the main reasons FSR has had a very bad rap from reviewers has been because devs have either just implemented FSR 1 or FSR 2 but did not upgrade to FSR 3 or 3.1. So reviewers would compare image quality in a game that only has FSR 1 support to DLSS 3 in the same game. This was not a meaningful comparison, but they would say DLSS was better than FSR because every game got DLSS upgrade via dll while FSR needed dev implementation of each new version. That is, all RTX GPUs had the ability to run DLSS and it became simply a case of installing a dll file with the drivers. So transition between DLSS 2 to DLSS 3 and DLSS 4 has been straightforward and minimal effort. FSR has not been that way

I have FSR 4 running on my RX 7900 XTX on Linux and really of the 9 or so games I tested, including Cyberpunk 2077, only The Last of Us Part II and GTA V: Enhanced Edition had a actual settings menu option switch from FSR 3.1 to FSR 4. Every other game just uses FSR 4 without a settings menu option switch to select FSR 4. You would simply choose FidelityFX or FSR 3 and it will be using FSR 4. So I feel the dll patch route will just get better support than trying to get devs to maintain two streams of FSR to deal with the GPU support issue.