Intel Ends Official XeSS Plugin Support for the Unity Engine

Game developers using the Unity engine will have to figure out their own upscaling solutions if they want to keep using Intel’s technology. Intel recently archived its official XeSS plugin for Unity, permanently freezing the code and walking away from the project.

This means the popular game engine will no longer receive official updates or bug fixes for the feature from the hardware giant.

The developers are now on their own

Intel quietly changed the GitHub repository for the plugin to a read-only status. The last public release of the tool came out back in March 2025. While the company is still updating its main XeSS software and its Unreal Engine plugin, Unity creators are currently stuck with an outdated version.

Because of this move, any studio in the USA or abroad that wants to keep using the plugin will have to manually manage the code. Interestingly, AMD made a similar choice by dropping its own Unity plugin updates a while ago. Game makers will simply have to adapt to these sudden changes if they want to optimize their future releases.

To make its stance clear, Intel posted a final notice on the project page. The company stated, “Intel will not provide or guarantee development of or support for this project, including but not limited to, maintenance, bug fixes, new releases or updates. Patches to this project are no longer accepted by Intel.”

The move does not affect XeSS as a whole. The upscaling tech is still supported in other engines and through different integrations. Still, dropping official Unity support could slow adoption among smaller studios that rely heavily on the engine.

Via Techpowerup