Some Bethesda games now on Xbox Game Pass get frame rate boosts on Xbox Series X / S
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass platform received a huge boost with the addition of 20 new Bethesda Softworks titles across Xbox consoles, PC, and xCloud last week. And now, a quarter of those games are getting performance boosts on the next-gen Xbox consoles in a new update.
The performance gains are in frame rate, thanks to an appropriately named new feature Microsoft revealed last month called FPS Boost, which can roughly double frame rates of older games using new Xbox hardware without requiring developers to do any manual work.
The games seeing performance boosts with frame rate jumps up to 60 frames per second include Arkane Studios' Dishonored: Definitive Edition and Prey and Bethesda Game Studios' The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special...