Today, PC Gaming catches up to Consoles
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DirectStorage, which lets your GPU access your SSD directly, has promised to make games better for years now. While it’s been on Xbox Series X since launch (and PS5 has its own version), now we’re finally getting it for PC. Why was it worth the wait?
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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova
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Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:00 DirectStorage is underrated
1:40 Playing with the demo
3:18 How game assets are usually loaded
4:26 Previous attempts to address the problem
5:52 Enter DirectStorage - Bigger than you think
6:38 Performance scaling and compression
7:46 Not ready... Yet.