AMD FSR 4 Rumored to Offer Seamless Upgrade for Radeon RX 9000 Series

Exciting news is milling on AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution technology! It would appear that upgrading to the latest and greatest in upscaling will become incredibly smooth for gamers rocking future AMD Radeon RX 9000 series cards. The word is that AMD FSR 4 could be made out to be an almost plug-and-play upgrade to games already using FSR 3.1 . The Whisper in the Wind: A Driver-Level Swap? The rumor, as it comes from a few pretty reliable sources-including @ Kepler_L2 on Twitter-suggests the RDNA 4 drivers for the RX 9000 series GPUs will automatically handle the FSR upgrade in the background. Just imagine: instead of having game developers patch their titles every time AMD releases a new FSR version, the driver simply swaps out the FSR 3.1 files (.dll extensions) for the shiny new FSR 4 versions. That aligns with what we witnessed at CES 2025, where AMD demonstrated FSR 4 operating in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, and for what it's worth, there was no word about a game patch…