Microsoft announced on Monday that before the end of 2022, a new version of DirectStorage will be released. Particularly for game developers to speed up load time with SSDs.
DirectStorage was first seen on Xbox for better and faster game-loading performance. And it was also live for Windows PCs in March.
Microsoft has announced that the new DirectStorage 1.1 will contain GPU Decompression tech and is already on its way to be released, reported Techradar.
According to the company, DirectStorage will reduce load times by up to 40% for games on fast NVMe SSDs running on Windows 11, while the GPU Decompression will triple the speed-up load time performance.
In a demo, Microsoft approximated GPU decompression with CPU decompression. Showing that “scenes are loading nearly 3x more rapidly. Conversely, the CPU is almost completely free to use for other game processes.”
The company promises that with this new DirectStorage running on GPU, Decompression will run games that support DirectStorage loading more smoothly.
However, no games support this advanced tech, except Forspoken, set to release in January 2023.
