Following the unveiling of the Xbox Series X/ Series S back in early 2020, Microsoft announced that one of the key technologies of its new gaming consoles, which is DirectStorage API, will be coming to Windows-powered PCs. The technology, which drastically reduces the load times for games, has finally started rolling out for developers to integrate into their games. Here are the details.
Microsoft recently shared an official blog post to announce the rollout of the DirectStorage API for Windows games. The company says that the technology will usher “a new era of fast load times and detailed worlds in PC games by allowing developers to more fully utilize the speed of the latest storage devices.”
It is also worth mentioning that you will also need to have an NVMe 4.0 SSD drive and a compatible motherboard installed in your system to take advantage of the technology. Moreover, Microsoft has only released the API for its partner companies. Hence, it will take some time for game developers to integrate it into their titles before shipping them to end-users.
One of the first games to integrate the DirectStorage API would be Luminous Productions’ Forspoken, which was recently delayed until October 11. Luminous Productions will explain how it uses Microsoft’s new storage system at the GDC 2022 later this month.
