Laptop Mag’s frustrating experience with Auto SR
Rami was fighting against strange resolution and frame rate problems with multiple games. When he first launched Control, the game automatically lowered its resolution and apparently lowered the resolution of the laptop’s display as well. According to Microsoft, you can turn off this display resolution change in settings, but that’s an annoying default feature.
When Control finally launched and was playable, Rami ran into “stuttering and spiked frame drops in combat” — not a great start. He ran into the same issues with Dark Souls III, even though both Control and Dark Souls III are two games supposedly verified by Microsoft to work with Auto SR. When Rami turned off Auto SR, Control and Dark Souls III instantly captured the native resolution of his Microsoft Surface Laptop review unit.
How to turn off Automatic Super Resolution in Windows 11
If you don’t even want to risk troubleshooting Auto SR and trying to get it to work correctly with your Snapdragon X Elite-powered laptop, you can turn the feature off — here’s how.
- Open Settings in Windows 11 by using the Windows key + I shortcut or clicking the Start menu button in your taskbar and selecting Settings.
- Navigate to the System menu.
- Click on Display at the top of the System menu.
- Scroll down and select Graphics from the Display menu, under the Related settings header.
- Under Default settings, switch the toggle off next to Automatic super resolution. You’ll only see this option listed if you have a Snapdragon X Elite-powered PC.
