Update: PC Games Hardware incorrectly used the third-party tool CapFrameX to measure its results, including metrics captured during the longer (and higher-performing) black loading screens for the ...

Yesterday, we published that DirectStorage might be killing your frame rate in Forspoken. This claim was based on some early testing from the PC Games Hardware YouTube channel, which claimed upwards ...

DirectStorage is a technology that Microsoft has developed for the Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X. The main goal of this technology is to reduce game loading times as much as possible. Microsoft has ...

TL;DR: Microsoft's DirectStorage technology accelerates game loading by allowing the GPU to handle file access and decompression, designed for NVMe SSDs with PCIe Gen4 speeds. Despite limited game ...

Microsoft has just introduced GPU decompression to its new DirectStorage API, bringing it to version 1.1. GPU decompression can provide huge performance gains in gaming — Microsoft promises up to a ...

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 Microsoft’s API designed to significantly speed up game asset loading by directly transferring data from NVMe SSDs to the GPU, bypassing the typical CPU-heavy bottlenecks associated ...

Microsoft DirectStorage is a technology designed to improve the data streaming capabilities of storage devices, particularly for gaming applications. It aims to reduce load times and enhance the ...

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, which is soon to arrive on PC, has had its hardware requirements aired, and we've also discovered that it'll support DirectStorage on PC. DirectStorage offers speedier ...