Microsoft to speed up load time for Windows gamers

New DirectStorage 1.1 will load games up to 40% faster on Windows PC

Microsoft announced on Monday that before the end of 2022 a fresh version of DirectStorage will be released to game developers, speeding up load times with SSDs.

DirectStorage was first seen on Xbox for better and faster loading performance in games but was also launched on Windows PCs in March.

Microsoft has revealed that the new DirectStorage 1.1 will comprise GPU Decompression tech and is already on its way to be released, reported Techradar.

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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 load time performance.

In a demo, Microsoft compared GPU decompression with CPU decompression, demonstrating that "scenes are loading nearly 3x faster and the CPU is almost entirely freed up to be used 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, there are no games that support this advanced tech yet, except Forspoken set to release in January 2023.