"In this way, developers are given an extremely efficient way to submit/handle many orders of magnitude more IO requests than ever before ultimately minimizing the time you wait to get in game, and bringing you larger, more detailed virtual worlds that load in as fast as your game character can move through it," according to Microsoft.
It also uses "the best current and upcoming decompression technologies" to get said data into your GPU quickly so it can be rendered, and effectively allows games to fully maximise the performance throughput of your NVMe SSD. In a nutshell, DirectStorage streamlines your PC's entire IO system so it can load in data to your RAM and graphics card memory banks much more efficiently. Manage cookie settingsĮnter DirectStorage, a new API that aims to get rid of those age-old bottlenecks in order to improve load times and allow game worlds to be bigger and more detailed than ever before. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. "Even with super-fast PC hardware and an NVMe drive, games using the existing APIs will be unable to fully saturate the IO pipeline leaving precious bandwidth on the table," Microsoft said in their blog post. According to Microsoft, current storage APIs aren't optimised for the high number of IO requests demanded by modern games, and they often can't scale up to take advantage of the super fast speeds offered by NVMe SSDs.
If, like me, you've been wondering why SSDs are apparently going to do so much more for the PS5 and Xbox Series X than what they've currently done for us in PC land so far, it's all to do with the state of our current storage APIs. The DirectX API aims to dramatically reduce loading times and enable developers to create bigger, more detailed worlds than ever before thanks to its "best in class IO tech" (that's input / output, in case you're unfamiliar with the term) - if you've got the right kind of SSD, that is.īut what is DirectStorage really, and how does it differ from Nvidia's recently announced RTX IO, which promises a very similar thing for the new RTX 3070, RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 cards? Read on below for everything you need to know. The tech behind the super fast load times on the Xbox Series X is coming to PCs in the form of DirectStorage, Microsoft have announced.
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