Enlarge / Microsoft has advertised “Xbox Velocity Architecture” to summarize a range of game-loading boosts for its newest consoles. The upcoming DirectStorage API is primed to bring some of those benefits to Windows PCs, but now that it is spread across two OSes, with varying speed expectations on each, will it have the same impact? […]
Enlarge / Xbox interface on Windows 11. (credit: Microsoft) Like many of Microsoft’s PC-specific announcements over the years, today’s sprawling Windows 11 unveil included a gaming-specific component—and at least one with major, next-gen performance in mind. Arguably the biggest component is DirectStorage, a DirectX 12 Ultimate API that had been previously announced (and then launched) […]