Loading screens are slowly but surely becoming a thing of the past. This is predominantly because of how fast games can load now, as ninth-generation consoles and high-end PCs can boot games up before ...

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If you’re a certain age, like me, you’ll remember how painfully slow game loading screens used to be. At one time, I could start loading up a game, go make a sandwich, and come back to find it still ...

The new Asus Xbox Ally X handheld gaming PC will be one of the first to benefit from a new DirectX feature that promises to speed up your game load times. According to Microsoft, this advanced game ...

Microsoft has released a public preview of DirectStorage 1.4, which it claims will boost game load times and asset streaming through new advanced encryption. As WCCFTech reports, the ZStandard (Zstd) ...

Microsoft may be exploring a future where waiting for a game to load could become another opportunity for advertising.

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft wants to offload game decompression from the CPU to the GPU to improve load times on PC games. As much ...