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Advanced Shader Delivery Comes to Desktop PCs and Windows 11, Supported By AMD’s RDNA GPUs

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Microsoft has just made available Advanced Shader Delivery to desktop PCs that run Windows 11. Right now, the only GPUs that support this feature are those from AMD. From what we know, none of the NVIDIA GPUs support ASD. There is also no ETA for when the green team will add support for it.

For those who did not know, Advanced Shader Delivery addresses one of the most frustrating challenges for PC players today. This is the long load times and disruptive stuttering during a game’s first launch. The feature works by delivering precompiled shaders to your game at download time, reducing load time by up to 90% and eliminating shader stutter.

One of the first games that support ASD is Forza Horizon 6. According to Microsoft, ADS dramatically improves loading times by 95% on an AMD Radeon RX 7600 GPU and an AMD Ryzen 7 5800 8-Core CPU. Without Advanced Shader Delivery, the game loads in 1.5 minutes. With ASD, it loads in just 4 seconds.

Here are all the PC gamers that currently support Advanced Shader Delivery:

  • Ark Survival Ascended
  • Avowed
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  • Control
  • Dead Island 2
  • Deep Rock Galactic
  • Farming Simulator 25
  • Forspoken
  • Final Fantasy XVI
  • Forza Horizon 5
  • Forza Motorsport
  • Gears of War: Reloaded
  • Gears Tactics
  • Grounded 2
  • Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced
  • Lies of P
  • Metro Exodus
  • Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
  • Monster Hunter Rise
  • Persona 3 Reload
  • Resident Evil 2 (2019)
  • Resident Evil 3
  • S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
  • Sea of Thieves
  • Sniper Elite: Resistance
  • South of Midnight
  • The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Remaster
  • Ninja Gaiden 4
  • The Callisto Protocol
  • The Outer Worlds 2
  • Silent Hill f
  • Keeper
  • Hogwarts Legacy

To use Advanced Shader Delivery, you will need Windows 11 24H2 or higher and the Xbox Gaming Services Version 37.113.11003.0. You will also need AMD RDNA 1, RDNA 2, RDNA 3, RDNA 3.5, or RDNA 4 GPU, and the AMD Adrenalin 26.6.1 driver.

From the looks of it, this is the first DX12 Ultimate feature that is only supported by Windows 11. Or at least that’s what Microsoft implies. Right now, I don’t have Forza Horizon 6 installed on my PC. However, I might install it in the weekend (alongside my AMD Radeon RX 9070XT) to see if ASD can also work on Windows 10.

It’s a shame that NVIDIA does not support Advanced Shader Delivery. According to Microsoft, it can also reduce shader compilation stutters. So, this is a big win for the red team. At least for now.

Stay tuned for more!