Xbox Cloud Gaming Clarity Boost Feature Rolling Out on Edge Browsers - News

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Xbox Cloud Gaming, which is available for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers, has been optimized with a brand-new Clarity Boost feature on Microsoft Edge browsers.

The feature uses client-side scaling to improve the visual quality of the video stream. It is available on Microsoft Edge Canary right now and will roll out to all Microsoft Edge users by next year. 

Here are steps on how try the Clarity Boost feature:

1. Download Microsoft Edge Canary  
2. To confirm you are in Microsoft Edge Canary, navigate to edge://settings/help to make sure you are on version 96.0.1033.0 or later. 
3. To enable Clarity Boost, go to www.xbox.com/play, login and start a game 
4. Open the more actions (…) menu 
5. Select Enable Clarity Boost option. 

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Zippy6 (on 30 November 2021)

Strange they would offer this only on Edge and not their dedicated apps on PC/Mobile/Console.

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G2ThaUNiT Zippy6 (on 30 November 2021)

They've been very careful when it comes to what platform to put features on first. Like how Cloud Gaming started only on Android, then progressively was added to more and more platforms. I imagine they're taking the same approach here.

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Zippy6 G2ThaUNiT (on 30 November 2021)

Yeah I see that it's only in the Edge beta right now and won't be available as standard till next year so I guess this is just the test run and then the feature will come to other platforms next year sometime.

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2zosteven zero129 (on 30 November 2021)

eventually they will get this correct and the game will change!

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Zippy6 zero129 (on 01 December 2021)

I don't get any lag with XCloud, but the image quality and stability was bad when I tried it again a few months ago when they upgraded to 1080p. Looked worse than Geforce/Stadia, had artifacting and audio popped regularly. Same setup runs the other cloud services flawlessly.

I intend to give it another shot and see if it's improved any for me soon.

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scrapking zero129 (on 01 December 2021)

I think there's some variability to this, depending on your proximity to one of Microsoft's server farms. I get no perceptible lag when I use xCloud. Mind you, I only live a couple of hundred kilometres away from Redmond WA.... ;)

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