As I wrote in our previous Windows 11 story, Microsoft announced that DirectStorage will be now exclusive to this new operating system. Since this is a hot topic, I believe it deserves its own article. After all, a lot of outlets and Microsoft itself have already overhyped this feature.
As Microsoft stated in a new blog post:
“With DirectStorage, which will only be available with Windows 11, games can quickly load assets to the graphics card without bogging down the CPU. This means you’ll get to experience incredibly detailed game worlds rendered at lightning speeds, without long load times. “DirectStorage Optimized” Windows 11 PCs are configured with the hardware and drivers needed to enable this amazing experience.”
So there you have it everyone. As we’ve seen numerous times, Microsoft will be locking specific features behind its latest operating system. This will obviously force some gamers to upgrade to Windows 11, especially when developers will start using DirectStorage.
Speaking of which, and since DirectStorage won’t come out on Windows 10, it will be interesting to see its adoption rate. Prior to this announcement, a lot of gamers were looking forward to it. However, developers will be now targeting a small group of gamers with this feature. And, don’t expect triple-A companies to release triple-A games that can be played by only a few PC gamers.
In short, this will harm PC gaming in the short term as there will be numerous developers who will not use it. I mean, look at DX12 and its adoption rate. DX12 came out in 2015 and we are still getting DX11 games from major triple-A companies. And while Windows 11 will be a free upgrade… so was Windows 10 when it came out… and look where we are.
So yeah, GG Microsoft!
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why are you crying ?
Windows 10 always been garbage since 2015 , I’ve always hate windows 10 when windows 10 update start to annoying me ,
that’s why f*8k windows 10
If you dont use window 10 Even then why you complain?
Keep not using
Because, he has experienced trauma given by Windows 10 .
Stop crying m0therf*ker.
mate i dont use win 10 start i use “Start is back” and “disable new search” as well as custom ui, win10 ui is awful.
Not upgrading till these mods are compatible with 11.
Good, download mods and the malware hidden in them, but complain microsoft is spying on you instead
Like 2 kB of geushwkhwsygsjfsi.exe can f**ked your computer
Linux KVM : let’s me introduce myself
ok if you are fine with linux keep using it why criticize a product you are not interested in?
did i complain microsoft is spying on me?
It is not yet out but you can already find it has all these issues? Its like you are going to a blind date and you start complaining she is too fat or too thin when you havent even seen the girl yet
He’s secret Microsoft’s employees , he’ll lose his job if he can’t defend window 11 on online
i dont know where you come from, wherever it is, turn on the local google translator and let it turn what you want to say in a decent english at least
i have mentioned technical details and provided with an explanation
but i didnt realize that i was talking to the right hand of bill gates, as clearly visibile in your reply where in 2 lines you managed to include an insult and a few acronyms ms fpps rrrp but not counter argument
here we are talking about directstorage, who the hell cares about your involuted talks of taskbars and ltsc bbtbc, these features the gears of the machine should be invisible for the average final user, you went off theme just to bash a new operating system which you have not in your hands and if you have it, it is a leak of an incomplete and early version…draw your conclusions
its a conspiracy against amd yeah…so microsoft is so dumb to halve down the number of installed machines because zen 3 will have issues with windows 11…do you make any sense?
Here we go again . ..
DX12 took years to be widely and correctly used by devs, in the the beginning it was just an unstable gimmicky API that everyone ignored in favor of DX11. you got it, no need to jump on a worldwide beta test for an OS that has nothing to offer other than trying to hook on the morons that think this tech will start being used tonight, hold the fcking line
Sounds exactly like a little PLANDEMIC that we are plagued with right now. No one is holding a line “just take the jab so you can travel”. WTF happened to people? That convenience sick I tell ya. I’m starting to see the same pattern in just about everything these days. I guess I’m just some crazy kook at this point. That untested, unapproved/you be the ginuea pig tech. I’m seeing everything through a whole new lens.
The reason nothing on PC beats a sata SSD is because directstorage doesn’t exist yet. That’s the bottleneck.
Muta from someordinarygamer youtuber said install windows 11 on Ubuntu KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) and Enjoy hell out gaming and software without worry about virus for windows
The bottleneck is the storage method.
Nvme SSD’s should be way faster than SATA. But they aren’t. Because the storage method is the bottleneck (having the CPU handle IO requests). With direct storage that goes away effectively.
Nobody is saying directstorage will boost fps.
It will boost loading times so that it’s even faster than sata SSD. And it will enable even faster streaming of data so stuttering won’t be as bad and virtual textures or other streaming applications will work faster.
The bottleneck is that the current storage API’s cannot handleany simultaneous IO requests and modern games make many more Io requests than they used to. These requests have to be handled by the CPU as well. With direct storage the GPU can do this directly with the storage device and the API itself is better at handling a large number of small concurrent Io requests.
Traverse stuttering, thats what you will see go away with directstorage
Me: trying to install windows 11 update, after fully installed
few moment later I almost got heart attack seeing this Sh*t
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Isn’t in it still in beta? Use some common sense: Caveat emptor when using an early access OS of all things.
Install on an other drive and play around sure… install as main os… sure if you love adrenaline & russian roulette with 5 bullets in the cylinder….
How much are they going to pay me if I upgrade?
I would gladly pay to M$ to they remove 90% of “features” that nobody will ever want or need
so what is this directstorage feature and what hardware requires?
Biggest problem these days Hardware is getting stronger and windows is become garbage where you can do lot’s of experiment with hardware on Linux
Another big problem is your english skills
Then use Google translate if you can’t understand English , even kids can understand this ..
your school fellows? those are the kids?
“windows is become garbage”…process it over google translate lets see which is the translation for that
Ha ha here the complain about grammar if you can’t put argument then go somewhere
Again, why is this a problem? Windows 11 is free to all existing Windows customers.
There’s no such thing as “free stuff”.
Free as in free of cost. Which happens to be the most important thing for prospective “purchasers”. Not sure what else you were expecting. It’s no different from Windows 10.
Not everything that glistens is Gold. What has become of this world and the people in it. So quick to just accept everything with 0 opposition. Do you love convenience that much?.. slow down a bit, asks some questions first.
I already asked the question. Care to give a proper reply?
The problem is that i’m still rocking with a windows 7.
You have to ask yourself what is hidden in windows 11 that they want to force on you to entice you to upgrade. Regardless… Directstorage claims to speed up loading times…. I really haven’t played a game with loading times that bugged me on an SSD. Even Warhammer II loads battles pretty quick. Whatever
If they wanted to push some hidden nefarious feature, why couldn’t they just do it on windows 10 via a software update? People update windows 10 all the time with no idea of what changed, so wouldn’t that be even easier to do?
from my experience, Using windows 10 since 2015 version
it’s sucks I kept 1607anniversary for 4 years until my hard disk got failed
what even most sucks Home single language don’t have Group Policy and Windows sandbox after 1709 windows 10 version you can’t choose between pro and home during installation where only 1607 was allow us install pro version
SSD loading times are actually annoying. Game loads so fast I can’t read the damn hints on the loading screen. wtf man just give me one more sec ahahaha
Lets see… more bloat… that’s just about as certain as more spyi err telemetry features. Hope they will allow something in the line of windows 11 lite install where most of the bloat can be unchecked prior to install
Shutup10 will probably be updated for Windows 11
Problem is software too, many games etc are basically forced to utilizes packaged archive approaches to allow harddrives to keep up while ssd’s wont be allowed to flex their wings due to the bottlenecks with those approaches.
What they want is to force you to use the Windows Store.
No more mods.
No more control over you own applications.
They want to neatly tuck away all software, options and files so you can’t mess with them.
Sure it’s easier that way, but having control over the files and software on your system is basically the whole reason the PC became popular in the first place.
Windows 11 looks like an excellent update.
Bleep Bloop….
After you Updated it you got heart attack
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Excellent post, well done.
Another bullsh*T move by microsoft.
🙁
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You are overheating most probably when you see this
Not overheating, but get heart attack
What about Auto-HDR? Will it come to Win 10 or will it be Win 11 exclusive too?
Just saw it. Also exclusive to 11. ffs, at least give us 1-2 years time to upgrade. It will have massive amount of issues like every windows version as before.
This so much. I really want Auto-HDR, but the release version of Win 11 will be buggy, no doubt.
They will enabled it back to win 10, like DX 12 on win 7 that they said isn’t possible but in the end they just wanted people to switch OS and justify their decision to collect data and stop support for Win 7 that people bought with their money
Like Bullsh*t BSOD which can give heart attack
I get it already, stop spamming your poor judgement choices…
The idea is to stream data from a NVMe drive directly across the PCIe BUS into VRAM, completely bypassing the CPU. This means faster loading, less stuters when streaming data/less or no low resolution textures breifly appearing and less VRAM required.
The dram will be a buffer where very compressed data is stored, cpu will not enter the pipeline process directly with the velocity archirecture data are uncompressed quick at dram level then moved directly to the gpu bypassing the old route dram cpu gpu which still causes traverse stuttering…it means you will not need 64 gb ddram for future games neither 40 vram because data will not be uploaded once at each new area and left in the ram pools to be elaborated but will be moved back and forth quickly from ram to vram bypassing cpu
I own a 3090 with adequate hardware around it, there is stuttering during some fights in resident 8 which is not there on ps5, ratchet and clank on pc would be plagued by traverse stuttering which the ignorant online magazines would call “optimization issues” i have read so many dumb comments from angry kids calling highly educated and skilled developers, with all bad names because their average machine experiences stuttering at ultra setting…how is it possible my pc is worth 2000!! They always whine…in theory and under certain circumstances that issue be soon forgotten on pc machines with direct storage, if you mention rdr2 ask yourself how much ram vram it requires…next gen games will require 3 times that data
If i had to pay for this new os then i would be angry too, but as a free upgrade no, it is a good thing, i foresee problems with the peripherals instead with brands rushing to upgrade their drivers and failing most of the time it took them years to make their peripherals work in win 10
Funny how that works. It requires double the space on PC than it does on Xbox
I dont see why it’s such a big deal to have more space on slower ssds
While i don’t like that forced move i can kind of understand why. I bet they will have to make an entire new storage subsystem as DS will feature different points of decompression, full dma between storage <-> gpu… have to think about security (hey a shader crypted my drive and displayed pay 100$ or your data is screwed message… that would make me laugh thoo :)).
Would not be surprised if we end up seeing a separate partition for DS so it can be separated from the os and handled by a low overhead/low latenct filesystem as robustness / permissions etc isnt as important.
F**k Windows 11 and gaming in Windows, Linux is the future of real gaming
You mean Linux KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is true future which have ability to use Graphic card under virtual machine
If only, how?
watch video from muta from someorinarygamer youtube channel who made video about how to make gaming machine on virtual KVM which GPU and high level of gaming performance
I could see it being utilized to decrease or even completely eradicate object and texture pop-in in graphically intense games but so far no game makes use of NVME SSD speeds so we’re a few years away from Direct Storage being widely adopted in games.
No need to rush to buy expensive drives or upgrade to a beta verson of the Windows 10.1.
Just Ubuntu Linux and install windows 11 in KVM virtual machine , pass the GPU into VM and enjoy the hell the Gaming without worry about windows virus
When will developers grow a pair and stop developing in these bs Direct Garbage? Oh yeah, forgot i’m talking about a bunch of nerds devs not people with balls…
And make sure to have backup before you get heart attack https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6d0a011e0a4b0a4d86b88e0c9cb2e071eb33befc96403815cf9513b9547c9995.png
I agree, but stop spamming the same comment over and over.
I’m making awareness to Everyone to take precautions..
Check linus s test of leaked windows 11 and see games load like “now!”
D*ck move MS
You are forced to log in with a Microsoft Account to use W11. F**k off MS!
Push push push MS !
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This was never going to make a difference anyway since developers will always target the lowest common denominator, in this case PS4 and the 99% of PC users still using HDDs. Maybe in 10 years we’ll start seeing games actually designed to take advantage of SSDs.
But wait, there’s more!
If your mobo doesn’t have TPM (Trusted Platform Module), it won’t be possible to install W11, since this is a obligatory requirement.
There must be some good quality weed rolling around Redmond.
What a shi*!