System Enable or Disable Automatic Super Resolution in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable using Automatic Super Resolution (AI upscaler) for your account in Windows 11.

Automatic Super Resolution uses AI to make supported games play more smoothly with enhanced details. This uses AI to render and upscale a low resolution graphics to higher resolution.

DirectSR is Microsoft's our new API designed in partnership with GPU hardware vendors to enable seamless integration of Super Resolution (SR) into the next generation of games. Super Resolution is a cutting-edge technique that increases the resolution and visual quality in games. DirectSR is the missing link developers have been waiting for when approaching SR integration, providing a smoother, more efficient experience that scales across hardware. This API enables multi-vendor SR through a common set of inputs and outputs, allowing a single code path to activate a variety of solutions including NVIDIA DLSS Super Resolution, AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution, and Intel XeSS. DirectSR will be available soon in the Agility SDK as a public preview, which will enable developers to test it out and provide feedback.

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Automatic Super Resolution is currently a hidden feature in Windows 11 build 26052 (Canary and Dev) that needs to be enabled using the command below with the ViVeTool app if you wanted to play with it now until officially released.

vivetool /enable /id:39695921 /variant:3

Currently turning on or off Automatic Super Resolution has no effect, but will work when officially released.

1 Open Settings (Win+I).

2 Click/tap on System on the left side, and click/tap on Display on the right side. (see screenshot below)



3 Under Related settings, click/tap on Graphics. (see screenshot below)



4 Turn On (default) or Off Automatic super resolution for what you want.


5 You can now close Settings if you like.





1 Open Registry Editor (regedit.exe).

2 Navigate to the key below in the left pane of Registry Editor. (see screenshot below step 3)


3 In the right pane of the UserGpuPreference key, double click/tap on the DirectXUserGlobalSettings string value (REG_SZ) in the right pane to modify it. (see screenshot below)


4 Do step 5 (on) or step 6 (off) below for what you want.

This is the default setting.

7 You can now close Registry Editor if you like.





1 Open Settings (Win+I).

2 Click/tap on System on the left side, and click/tap on Display on the right side. (see screenshot below)



3 Under Related settings, click/tap on Graphics. (see screenshot below)



4 Under Custom settings for applications, click/tap on an app (ex: "Microsoft Store") you want to expand it open. (see screenshot below step 5)

5 Select Off (default), On, or On (keep current display resolution) for what you want in the Automatic super resolution drop menu. (see screenshot below)

The Automatic super resolution setting will be grayed out while Auto HDR is turned on for this app. You will need to turn off Auto HDR for this app to be able to turn on Automatic super resolution for this app.

6 You can now close Settings if you like.





1 Open Registry Editor (regedit.exe).

2 Navigate to the key below in the left pane of Registry Editor. (see screenshot below step 3)


3 In the right pane of the UserGpuPreference key, double click/tap on the string value (REG_SZ) for the app (ex: "Microsoft Store") you want in the right pane to modify it. (see screenshot below)


4 Do step 5 (off), step 6 (on), step 7 (on (keep current display resolution)) below for what you want.

This is the default setting.

8 You can now close Registry Editor if you like.


That's it,
Shawn Brink