The First DirectStorage Game Is Here. Is Your PC Ready?
DirectStorage for Windows promises to bring the rapid loading speeds of the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 to PC gaming, and the first title to actually implement this technology arrives January 24, 2023. Can your PC handle it?
Forspoken is a game launching on PlayStation 5 and Windows PC. It’s an action roleplaying game with a focus on traversal, covering large distances with speed and fluidity. That involves a huge amount of streamed data, so this is perfect for the PlayStation 5. That’s because the PS5 features a custom SSD and hardware compression technology to reach maximum data read speeds of around 9GB per second.
Even if you have one of the latest PCIe SSDs in your computer, you won’t get anywhere near that figure, so to have an equivalent experience on PC, something new is necessary.
That’s where DirectStorage comes into the picture, and Forspoken is the first PC game to implement this long-awaited feature that Xbox Series players have enjoyed since those consoles launched.
In fact, the developers of Forspoken say that DirectStorage 1.1 reduces load times from 10 seconds to a mere one second in the game, although your specific hardware may influence real-world performance.
DirectStorage is part of the latest DirectX API or Application Programming Interface. This is a set of standard software functions that handles communication between software and hardware. This is why game developers no longer have to develop their games for specific graphics or sound cards. As long as the hardware and software comply with DirectX, it should all just work.
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