Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Back in April, Microsoft updated its DirectStorage API to version 1.2, bringing support to older drives and performance improvements to the technology that ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Nvidia, AMD, and Intel are getting behind Microsoft’s DirectStorage efforts with new drivers. Now we just need ...

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart came out on PCs this July and as is often the case, the launch has had its fair share of issues on both AMD and Nvidia. Surprisingly, Intel, which released its driver first ...

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Microsoft has released DirectStorage 1.1 — a way to significantly reduce PC game load times — and all the major graphics card vendors have decided to support it. In conjunction with the release, AMD, ...

Most of the discussion around Microsoft's DirectStorage API has been centered around games and how it can drastically reduce their load times when paired with fast NVMe SSDs. DirectStorage as an API ...

DirectStorage is out! No, seriously—DirectStorage 1.1, which can drastically accelerate game asset loading time, is already released and available for developers to use. Unfortunately, there aren't ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Microsoft's DirectStorage technology brings lightning-fast loading times to PC games, with near-instantaneous gaming similar to what we saw when the ...

Microsoft's DirectStorage will soon be in another title. Developer Nixxes Software has confirmed that its upcoming PC port for Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart will feature DirectStorage version 1.2.

Why it matters: PC games haven't been able to take advantage of SSDs the way PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series games have because the proper APIs to do so aren't yet in place. That's finally starting to ...