Add support for FreeSync, G-Sync, and unlocked frame rates: New Windows 10 updates

Over the last few months, Microsoft has been pushing game developers to bring titles to the Windows 10 Store with extremely mixed results. Most of the games published under the Universal Windows Platform(UWP) to-date have had significant problems, and even the handful that weren’t broken from the start have been far more limited than the version you can buy on Steam or from other digital download services. Today, Microsoft is releasing updates for Windows 10 that will remove some of these restrictions.

Starting today, Windows 10 applications will allow you to unlock the frame rate and can use both AMD’s FreeSync and Nvidia’s G-Sync technologies. The update can be downloaded here, though the blog notes that the games themselves will have to be updated to allow for them to function. “Once applications take advantage of these new features, you will be able to play your UWP games with unlocked frame rates. We expect Gears of War: UE and Forza Motorsport 6: Apex to lead the way by adding this support in the very near future.”

Microsoft’s blog post on this topic also dives into details on DirectX 12, Windows 10, and the future of the UWP initiative. One particular section on V-Sync states: