Check out https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/games/xbox/partner/development-education-whitepapers for the latest Xbox One X whitepapers.
| Whitepaper | Description |
|---|---|
| The Path to Project Scorpio | Xbox One X, the newest Xbox One device, will be available for Holiday 2017. This white paper answers common questions about development paths that you can pursue now, and about compatibility across the Xbox One family. |
| Getting Started with HDR | This white paper outlines a number of high level steps that can help make render pipeline changes to successfully implement HDR in a game. |
| HDR Display Mapping (Developer Education Materials > All NDA Whitepapers) | Most games render an HDR scene that includes values brighter than White. For these bright values to be displayed on an SDR TV, a tone mapping operator is applied to the HDR scene values. This is known as HDR display mapping. |
| Writing Change Resilient Games | This paper, written for studio technical directors and systems engineers, provides advice on how to future-proof your title code to maximize the likelihood that your title will run well across future revisions to Xbox console hardware and software. |
| Reaching 4K and GPU Scaling Across Multiple Xbox Devices | This paper presents our recommendations for making the best effective use of the GPU in the forthcoming Xbox One X release. |
| HDR on Xbox One | New TVs include features (such as HDR, WCG, and 120 Hz) that open a door to possibilities for enhanced image quality. This paper focuses on HDR, specifically implementation details on Xbox One. |
| Xbox One Dynamic Resolution | This white paper covers the Xbox One hardware, APIs, and best practices for dynamically scaling a title’s resolution in order to achieve a smooth frame rate while handling variations in scene-rendering complexity. |
| [Xbox One System Hardware Overview](xbox-one-family-system-hardware-overview.md | This white paper provides a high-level overview, from a developer’s perspective, of the hardware features of the Xbox One family of consoles. |
| Intelligent Delivery for Xbox One - Language and Device Aware Streaming Install | Intelligent Delivery enables titles to ship with smaller, faster installs. It allows assets to be targeted to specific consoles, and it allows localized assets to be declared, so that a subset of those language assets can be installed. |
| Updating Your Xbox One Title for Project Scorpio | This white paper describes best practices for engineers enabling Xbox One X capabilities on existing Xbox One titles. |
Check out https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/games/xbox/partner/development-education-samples for the latest Xbox One X samples.