New Snapdragon Control Panel to boost performance on Snapdragon X2 Elite PCs

What you should know:​

• With the new Snapdragon Control Panel, users can optimize game settings and keep drivers up to date.
• Downloadable graphics drivers and AVX2 emulation can bring better performance and support for more games.
• Fortnite and improved anti-cheat compatibility are now available on Snapdragon X Series devices.

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The Snapdragon X Series gaming ecosystem is growing and solidifying quickly.

Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme and Snapdragon X2 Elite represent the fastest and most efficient processors for the Windows ecosystem,* delivering a legendary leap forward in terms of performance. And we’re now unlocking the platform’s graphics capabilities with several updates, making gaming on a thin-and-light laptop better than ever.

Snapdragon Control Panel​

We’re ecstatic to announce general availability of Snapdragon Control Panel, succeeding Qualcomm Adreno Control Panel for developers earlier this year.

The new Snapdragon Control Panel automatically detects the games, including your Steam library, that you have installed on your device and then lets you modify settings to optimize quality and performance via an application profile manager. These settings include super resolution, framerate cap, anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering, level of detail and texture filtering — with more still to come.

Users can also stay up to date with the latest drivers. Snapdragon Control Panel notifies you when new drivers are available and seamlessly installs them, so your devices with Snapdragon X Series are up to date. Meaning you can play the latest titles with better stability, performance and quality with continuously improving graphics drivers.

Downloadable graphics drivers​

With downloadable graphics drivers, owners of devices powered by Snapdragon X Series can keep their device’s Adreno GPU graphics drivers updated to get the best out of the system’s capabilities.

The latest Adreno GPU driver is here, and it includes:

• Fixes and improvements for 100+ games since launch.
• Bug fixes for app & system stability.
• Day 0 support and availability of upgradable graphics drivers (UGD) for Snapdragon X2 Elite, available first half of 2026.

AVX2 emulation released in Windows​

X86 Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) are crucial for some games and are now supported on Snapdragon X Series Platforms through improvements to Microsoft’s Prism Emulator.

Snapdragon X2 Elite supports AVX2 emulation. Current Snapdragon X Series devices will also receive the update in coming weeks.

And good news: It’s easy to enable AVX2 emulation on your systems with Snapdragon X Series through Microsoft Windows. Here’s how to do it.

Fortnite, Easy Anti-Cheat and improved multiplayer compatibility​

Everyone’s favorite battle royale, Fortnite, is now available and optimized with UGD with performance optimizations (release v121.1 or later).

This was made possible with support for Epic Online Services’ Easy Anti-Cheat, we have worked with developers to provide Kernel Level Anti-cheat support for Windows on Snapdragon.

Plus, we’re working with leading anti-cheat service providers to make sure you can jump into the lobbies of your favorite games. They include:

• Tencent’s Anti-Cheat Expert (ACE)
• Roblox’s Hyperion
• Denuvo by Irdeto
• InProtect GameGuard
• BattleEye
• Uncheater

We can’t wait for you to experience these improvements for yourself:​

Download and install the latest version of Snapdragon Control Panel
Download and install upgradeable graphics drivers (UGD)
Connect to the developer community through our Windows on Snapdragon support forum
Join the UGD channel on Developer Discord to participate in real-time discussions with your fellow developers