{"id":1043,"date":"2023-03-20T00:20:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T00:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2023-03-20T00:20:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T00:20:05","slug":"microsofts-directstorage-will-speed-up-game-loads-on-windows-10-and-11-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=1043","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s DirectStorage will speed up game loads on Windows 10 and 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div><p>&#8220;Windows games can ship with DirectStorage&#8221; starting today, Microsoft has DirectStorage is the tech giant&#8217;s fast game-loading technology that was introduced with the explains, current storage APIs weren&#8217;t optimized for modern games&#8217; data loading methods and create bottlenecks that lengthen loading times even for those who have an NVMe SSD. In addition, most gaming assets need to be decompressed before they&#8217;re sent to the GPU for rendering. DirectStorage solves those issues by processing multiple I\/O requests needed to load assets into batches and by using the best current (and future) decompression technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft <em>The Verge<\/em> reports, there are no available games with DirectStorage support yet. One of the first titles to take advantage of the technology is Square Enix&#8217;s in October. Other developers may have only just started working on incorporating the technology into their games. It may take a while for more titles to come with DirectStorage, especially since not everyone has upgraded to NVMe SSDs yet. It&#8217;s worth noting, though, that while Windows 11 unlocks the technology&#8217;s full potential, even gamers on Windows 10 will still see some improvements while playing games that support it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The tech giant will present an introduction to DirectStorage at GDC on March 22nd and is expected to give tips and tricks developers can use to get started. <em>Forspoken<\/em> developer Luminous will also be talking about how it integrated the technology into the game at the same event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Windows games can ship with DirectStorage&#8221; starting today, Microsoft has DirectStorage is the tech giant&#8217;s fast game-loading technology that was introduced with the explains, current storage APIs weren&#8217;t optimized for modern games&#8217; data loading methods and create bottlenecks that lengthen loading times even for those who have an NVMe SSD. In addition, most gaming assets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1059,115,121,64,1060,673],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}