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. Microsoft has ...

That’s great news, especially considering Sony’s last PC port was such a disaster. The Last of Us Part 1 released in a dire state on PC, and although it has gotten better after a series of patches, it ...

Update: PC Games Hardware incorrectly used the third-party tool CapFrameX to measure its results, including metrics captured during the longer (and higher-performing) black loading screens for the ...

Spider-Man 2 is officially out on PC, and according to some early testing, the game has a bit of a problem with Microsoft’s DirectStorage. This feature enables GPU decompression in Spider-Man 2, and ...

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, which is soon to arrive on PC, has had its hardware requirements aired, and we've also discovered that it'll support DirectStorage on PC. DirectStorage offers speedier ...

Forspoken is an upcoming action-RPG game published by Square Enix and developed by Luminous Productions. The game's PC performance targets and spec requirements have been officially revealed.

Square-Enix's Forspoken is out now, meaning that you can actually test DirectStorage in a real game. Forspoken even includes a built-in benchmark that not only shows framerates but also tracks load ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A surprise addition to Microsoft’s DirectStorage API will speed up slower hard drives. We still need to see ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft wants to offload game decompression from the CPU to the GPU to improve load times on PC games. As much ...