Ah, DirectStorage. Remember how exciting it was when Microsoft announced — just three years ago! — that it was bringing its fast asset-loading tech from Xbox to PC? We thought loading screens ...

After a long build up, Microsoft’s much-awaited DirectStorage technology has finally arrived on PCs, promising blink-and-you’ll-miss-it loading times—and our early test results in Forspoken ...

DirectStorage is a technology that Microsoft has developed for the Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X. The main goal of this technology is to reduce game loading times as much as possible.

It’s a serious performance upgrade for anyone with a gaming PC. From DirectX 12 Ultimate, Auto HDR, and DirectStorage, the OS ...

Diablo 4 received a new update overnight that delivered a small, but effective change to the cost of Masterworking in the ...

In order to take advantage of increasingly faster SSDs like never before, Microsoft launched DirectStorage for the Xbox Series X, and now DirectStorage is making its way to PC. While DirectStorage ...

Blizzard's latest Diablo 4 2.2.2 patch makes masterworking cheaper for everyone with reduced material costs and more.

Following the release of the DirectStorage API back in March (time flies), Microsoft has announced DirectStorage 1.1. Essentially, the newer version adds GPU decompression to proceedings ...

One of the newer Xbox features that Microsoft has been working to bring to Windows is DirectStorage, a collection of features that allows fast PCI Express-based NVMe SSDs to communicate directly ...

Microsoft's DirectStorage technology brings lightning-fast loading times to PC games, with near-instantaneous gaming similar to what we saw when the PlayStation 5 launched. How it works is that it ...

A surprise addition to Microsoft’s DirectStorage API will speed up slower hard drives. We still need to see developers implement support, though. A surprise addition to Microsoft’s ...

DirectStorage for Windows is separate API built into Microsoft’s DirectX 12 platform that’s better optimized for loading ...