*From PC World: *Talk about fake frames all you like, the multi-frame generation feature in newer Nvidia cards is pretty amazing. Intel’s Arc graphics—which still exist, we promise!—are getting in on the action. The latest version of the Arc graphics driver includes an XeSS update with three-to-one frame generation, or two generated frames for every rendered one.

Multi-frame generation is the headline feature of XeSS 3, Intel’s version of the upscaling tech that powers Nvidia DLSS and AMD FSR. And it’s not just for Arc discrete graphics (i.e., Alchemist and Battlemage, the AXXX and BXXX cards). The latest Intel laptop chips with integrated graphics should get at least some of these capabilities, most notably the upcoming Panther Lake processors with graphics equivalent to the Arc B390 and B370. But the same graphics driver also supports Arrow Lake, Lunar Lake, and Meteor Lake laptops going back to 2023.

Exactly which laptops will get full XeSS 3 support and multi-frame generation isn’t spelled out. The XeSS system is technically multi-platform—it even works on Nvidia and AMD GPUs—but that doesn’t mean every feature will come to every device. Intel previously said that XeSS 3 support should work on games that already have XeSS 2 enabled… but that’s a pretty short list of 44 games at the time of writing.

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