Dolmen, a sci-fi action RPG set to release in a few days on May 20, won't launch with Intel's XeSS technology on board, it's Team Blue's DLSS rival, and the developer has made that clear.
The Dolmen developer was originally asked by Wccftech in an interview if the RPG would have support for XeSS at launch and (as reported by Tom's Hardware) said, "I think I can tell you that anyone, including the Intel partnership, will will release in the day one patch.”
Wccftech then updated their interview to say that Koch Media PR had been in touch to report that XeSS support won't actually come until the summer. Also, as VideoCardz has resumed, the developer has just tweeted to confirm a summer release date for XeSS in Dolmen.
Analysis: Did we really think XeSS was imminent, when Desktop Arc wasn't?
It's a bit strange, actually, since we didn't expect Intel to release XeSS this week. Remember, there is no Arc Alchemist desktop GPU, not even an imminent release; those graphics cards will likely only launch in late June, and will only be in China to begin with (we may not see, there won't be any discrete Arc desktop GPUs until later in August in Europe and the US).
On top of that, even Alchemist laptop GPUs aren't available outside of Korea yet, so what's the point of releasing XeSS to a small user base, which may further frustrate people waiting for the cards? posted something else, can't benefit").
Dolmen, which was a game used by Intel to show off its frame rate boost when launching the Arc laptop GPU, should get XeSS in July or August, then, and it would certainly make sense to delay the release of this technology until the cards Arc are available. more available worldwide (as well as desktop models). The game also supports Nvidia DLSS and AMD's FSR (only v1.0 in the latter case, though apparently FSR 2.0 support is coming soon).
The (effective) delay of Arc desktop graphics cards beyond Q2.0 (at least outside of Asia) is of course already bad news for Intel, AMD and Nvidia who possibly have next-gen GPUs ready for September, and Nvidia could have some kind of a release scheduled for July, according to a new rumor. And with the appearance of FSR XNUMX, which seems like a big step forward for Team Red, long before XeSS hits the streets, it's just another area where Intel is falling behind in trying to make the best impression on the market. Alchemist office debut. .
In short, it looks like things aren't really going according to plan for Intel, and that puts us in a mindset where further delays wouldn't be surprising.
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