DirectStorage 1.1 is coming soon - Microsoft Confirms

[WYP]

GPU-decompression is coming to DirectStorage.



Read more about Microsoft's DirectStorage 1.1 API.

 

[Dicehunter]

Good to see progress but we still don't have a single game with DS 1.0 nevermind 1.1 ^_^

 

[dazbobaby]

Good to see progress but we still don't have a single game with DS 1.0 nevermind 1.1 ^_^

I was going to ask if it's worth it. Being on windows 10 I have no access to it, now I see it's not worth the hassle upgrading.

 

[meuvoy]

Good to see progress but we still don't have a single game with DS 1.0 nevermind 1.1 ^_^

Dorectstora 1.0 is just more work for developers with no real performance gains... Basically it's nothing, no one understands why Microsoft released it. It simply doesn't support hardware acceleration so what's the point?

That's mainly the reason nothing uses DS1.0 but plenty Xbox games are using Xbox's implementation of it, and yes it does support hardware acceleration from launch on console... You can clearly see how Microsoft likes PC gamers.

 

[looz]

Dorectstora 1.0 is just more work for developers with no real performance gains... Basically it's nothing, no one understands why Microsoft released it. It simply doesn't support hardware acceleration so what's the point?

That's mainly the reason nothing uses DS1.0 but plenty Xbox games are using Xbox's implementation of it, and yes it does support hardware acceleration from launch on console... You can clearly see how Microsoft likes PC gamers.

Huh, one would have thought implementing the Xbox equivalent would make enabling the PC DirectStorage easy, if it doesn't carry over then that's quite silly indeed. Are you sure it's not just due to long development cycles?

But I guess large open world releases will make use of it.

 

[NeverBackDown]

It's only been available to developers since March 14th 2022. Not many big games have released since then. Makes sense not widely used.

 

[looz]

"Not widely used" is bit of an understatement considering not a single game uses it, but yeah. No game benefiting from such tech has a half a year development cycle.