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   mikiem2
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   neowin[.]net/news/microsoft-reinforces-windows-11-as-the-best-for-gaming-as-directstorage-finally-hits-pcs/

   windowscentral[.]com/directstorage-now-available-windows-11-bringing-faster-load-times-games

   OK, this falls in the category of maybe shaping your future plans for hardware upgrades if you're a serious gamer [yeah, I mean you, WR :) ]. Microsoft is pumping Win11 as the best [or only] way to take advantage of DirectStorage, but per Windows Central, it will work on Win10. The tech itself comes from the Xbox, & was developed to take advantage of super fast NVMe SSDs. The normal processes for reading / writing to hard disks aren't the fastest, most efficient way to get it done, but they're more than adequate for the conventional hard disks, and later SSDs it was designed for. Designed for Very fast NVMe drives, DirectStorage changes all that. However, the one thing you do need is patience -- only the code itself has been released, so now it's up to the game devs to include it in their games.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   mikiem2
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   theverge[.]com/2022/3/23/22993860/forspoken-pc-microsoft-directstorage-nvme-ssd-gdc

   Last Monday, Microsoft declared that DirectStorage would usher in “a new era of fast load times and detailed worlds in PC games.” And while that now seems a little too grandiose, the developer of upcoming tech showcase game Forspoken now claims that one-second load times are legitimately in reach.

   Speaking at a GDC 2022 presentation about the tech embedded in the PC version of the game, Luminous Productions technical director Teppei Ono says that the Square Enix title will actually load some scenes in one second flat, provided your Windows 11 PC has a NVMe SSD capable of over 5,000MB/sec reads.

   You might be wondering if that’s substantially faster than games run without DirectStorage, and Ono admits the answer is actually no, not yet: while you’ll definitely see a huge speed boost from an SSD over the magnetic spinning platters of a hard drive, and from an NVMe SSD over a slower SATA-based drive, the current implementation of DirectStorage in Forspoken is only removing one of the big I/O bottlenecks — others exist on the CPU.

   And if you’ve been hoping that DirectStorage will bring enhanced performance with regular spinning hard drives, the answer is not yet: “HDDs are not delivering the anticipated result due to hardware performance limitations,” says Ono.

   Posted 2 years ago #

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