DirectStorage 1.1 will dramatically reduce PC game load times by using your GPU


What you need to know

  • DirectStorage 1.1 will come to Windows PCs later this year.
  • The update adds support for GPU decompression, which shifts the workload of decompressing files from a system’s CPU to its GPU.
  • GPU decompression should dramatically reduce load times within supported games.

Microsoft will soon release support for DirectStorage 1.1 on Windows 11 and Windows 10. The update follows on the heels of DirectStorage 1.0, which already reduces load times by up to 40% by taking advantage of NVMe drives. Later this year, Microsoft will share an SDK to allow developers to implement DirectStorage 1.1.

DirectStorage is part of what allows games to load quickly on the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S. It does so by taking full advantage of the best SSDs or best internal hard drives. The feature can reduce load times by up to 40%, assuming that a system has an NVMe drive. On the PC side of things, DirectStorage was originally exclusive to Windows 11 but Microsoft later added support for the technology to Windows 10.





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