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Spider-Man 2's PC launch woes are woe-ier than you think, as it looks like GPU-powered DirectStorage is hobbling performance
By Nick Evanson published
news Not Nixxes' finest hour, that's for sure.

Check out your gaming PC's storage chops with 3DMark's new DirectStorage benchmark
By Nick Evanson published
news A speedy SSD makes all the difference but the Devil is in the details

One of the biggest upgrades to texture load times in years just debuted in a free Portal mod
By Jacob Ridley published
News GPU decompression is here, and you can try it for free with RTX IO in Portal: Prelude.

Turns out Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart CAN run on a hard drive... thanks to DirectStorage 1.2 on PC
By Jorge Jimenez published
News This becomes the first DirectStorage 1.2 game with GPU decompression support.

The Diablo 4 team confirms DirectStorage isn't working in the game 'but we are planning on enabling it in the future'
By Dave James published
News Microsoft's funky SSD tech should be landing in Diablo 4 at some point.

I'm enjoying the surface level absurdity of Microsoft updating DirectStorage 1.2 for the benefit of ye olde hard drives
By Dave James published
news Though it could be the feature which encourages more developers to implement DirectStorage in their games.

Crucial T700 preview: The fastest PCIe 5.0 SSD on the planet... for what that's worth
By Dave James published
Comin' in hot Headline grabbing 12,000 MB/s speeds can't hide the fact there's little to tempt gamers.

Forspoken DirectStorage on test: Contrary to reports, there's no GPU performance hit on an RTX 4090
By Dave James published
SuperSSD But weirdly, you will see higher fps on a hard drive if you're willing to wait
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