18 months ago, Microsoft revealed that one of the most significant developments in its new Xbox Series X console would be coming to PCs - the ability to stream huge amounts of data from an incredibly fast NVMe solid state drive to your GPU instead of the CPU. The so-called "DirectStorage API" would allow games to load more detailed worlds much faster than before.
Microsoft today he said the availability of the DirectStorage API.
"From today, Windows games can be released with DirectStorage. "This public release of the SDK ushers in a new era of fast loading times and detailed worlds of PC gaming, allowing developers to take full advantage of the latest hardware speed," the company blog post said.
DirectStorage reads from NVMe SSDs to RAM, copies to GPU memory, and then decompresses to GPU.
The good thing is that the new technology will work with the Windows 10, not just with Windows 11, even though Microsoft says 11 is “our recommended edition for gaming.”
However, before you look for a game for this quick unit NVMe 4.0 and the compatible motherboard, you should know that there are no games available yet. Although developers can do preview της τεχνολογίας από τον Ιούλιο, δεν έχει κυκλοφορήσει τίποτα μέχρι σήμερα. Μπορεί όμως να δούμε κάτι μέχρι τις 23 Μαρτίου στο congress game developers, when AMD and developer company Luminous Productions will explain how they brought DirectStorage to Forspoken, one of the first game demos on the new technology.
Here is the latest trailer for the Forspoken game, which can run on Sony PS5, Windows PC and Xbox Series X using fast SSD techniques:
