u/GioCrush68

Some background. I recently got a Legion Go Z1E secondhand on marketplace. I wanted to get a Steam Deck OLED so I can give my Steam Deck LCD to my wife after she tried it and fell in love with being able to play her favorite games handheld away from our desks. Unfortunately they've been almost impossible to get from Valve and they're way overpriced on the secondhand market. I found a listing for a Legion Go 1TB for only $400 since he just upgraded to a Legion Go 2 and decided that would have to be enough. I threw bazzite on it because Windows was frustrating and I've honestly been incredibly happy with the performance ever since. The only problem besides the cooler sounding like a jet engine under load was the atrocious battery life. Less than an hour in some AAA games despite my best efforts to improve battery life.

So I did some research and saw that it's really common and easy to upgrade the battery. Without hesitation I ordered an 81wh battery and I replaced it in less than 30 minutes. I did have to remove the battery frame thing and used electric tape for cable management but overall it was an easy and painless experience. That was a week ago and the battery life has been great ever since! I get almost 4 hours in FFXIV Dawntrail! With how cheap and easy it is I consider this a must have upgrade for legion go owners!

So now that Linux has official FSR 4 support for RDNA 3 through the mesa drivers but Windows still doesn't even with the newest drivers update I have a theory.

Maybe the reason that they haven't been released for Windows is because of Xbox?

Hear me out. We know that PSSR is essentially just FSR 4 INT8 optimized to run on the PlayStation 5's RDNA 3 graphics and there have been rumors that the reason it hasn't been released officially is because Sony is blocking it. A lot of people quickly dismiss this though because they see no reason for Sony to do this since Sony isn't directly in competition with PC. But they are in direct competition with Xbox. The Xbox Series X uses the same RDNA 2 graphics as the base PS5 and since it runs on Windows NT it would immediately be able to use most software and drivers compatible with Windows 11. I'm sure that Xbox will also have their own version of it eventually but as of right now it only uses up to FSR 3.1 and most games only use up to FSR 2.2. Xbox also didn't have a hardware refresh this generation like PlayStation did with the Pro so it could really benefit from a better upscaler in modern games.

So what do you guys think?