Microsoft removes mandatory >1TB storage requirement for DirectStorage NVMe SSDs
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cucaulay malkin
960gb drive owners
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SpajdrEX
Good, although as games are getting bigger, having anything smaller than 1TB is not recommended anyway.
JOHN30011887
I personally wasn't bothered, since i have a samsung 970 evo 1tb nvme ssd for os and two sabrent 4tb (tlc) nvme ssd's for games only,
But a lot of others out in the world dont have much cash to splash so its good the daft 1tb requirement is gone for those people
cucaulay malkin
it would be pointless,mainly because it's gonna take time before you fill that 1tb with rtx-io/ds compatible games
for a 1tb drive,assuming games are 50-60g on average,it would take at least 15 to fill that space.I don't think the adoption will be that quick and we'll have a few dozen titles on launch day.
imo 500g would be a reasonable recommendation,and 250g a reasonable minimum requirement.
Undying
250gb should be a minimum now since they changed the requirement. Not many games but it should work i guess.
I only have 256gb nvme drive for windows but all my games are installed on my sata ssds.
Alessio1989
There is no technical reason at all to force a minimum space requirement. Peopl already knows how much they can install on their drivers, and if not, the installer will thell them with a fail/error message. There is nothing related to the API at all.
cucaulay malkin
got a 8200pro 1tb last year,glad I did.
non-ds games can go on my other 128+256(2)+480+500+512 sata ssds
though I will not be an early adopter for w11 so whatever.
Passus
This is true now, I have 2x 256gb SSD's for games that benefit
And I have 2x 3.5" 1tb 7200rpm HDDs and 1x 2.5" 500gb for downloads
and I do struggle
However 1 of the SSD's is my OS drive which i try to avoid installing programs on for some strange old reason lol so that has currently 130 ish gb free
Direct storage is gonna be great for games thats for sure
Undying
Why not? You meet the requirements.
cucaulay malkin
naaah
MaCk0y
Will Directstorage work with RAIDed NVMe SSDs?
h9dlb
COD cold war is 166gb alone. Modern Warfare is 155gb. RDR2 115gb, Battlefront, Battlefield V, GTA V, Elder Scrolls Online are around 100gb each
With the new gfx technology that is coming (especially with the new unreal engine) games are only going to get much bigger. Soon a 1tb drive will only fit say the OS and 3 games
RealNC
According to Epic, UE5 will makes games smaller 😛
I_Eat_You_Alive
Not likely in its first implementation. It will be using a raid driver instead of the required NVMe driver to pass commands. Most of the higher level benefits of the NVMe driver will be stripped off by the RAID driver essentially making them very fast sata drives.
My questions is the given requirement to have to use the 'Standard NVM Express Controller' driver provided by Microsoft as a hard requirement. If the Samsung NVMe driver is not supported under directstorage then they can shove Windows 11 were the sun don't shine. If they do support the Samsung driver (with a few tweaks from Samsung of course) then I will give it a try on a backup system for 6-8 months to see if it is a mess or not. Once it has gotten a full service update and proves to be stable then I may go all in on my main machines.
RealNC
What's the difference between the MS driver and the Samsung one?
illrigger
I can guarantee that any driver that Samsung makes will be useless compared to a DirectStorage mounted drive. We are talking apps being able to actually leverage the native transfer rates of NVMe for app loading vs being strangled by WDM-compatible drivers that have kept them as slow as SATA drives for years.
I_Eat_You_Alive
The Samsung driver has optimizations that leverage specific data channels in the drive's controller. At least on my computers with Samsung drives the Samsung written NVMe driver is globally 30% or more faster than the Microsoft generic one installed with windows.
illrigger
So that means a 30% increase for using Samsung's WDM drivers, vs an up to 400-800% increase by using DirectStorage, plus whatever Samsung manages when they get a new driver out. That's not hard math to do.
EspHack
after a decade+ of gaming rigs having SSDs, we'll finally get some use out of it other than booting faster and some games loading faster only for HDD players to force you to wait anyway
I hope there's a way to disable crossplay with last gen consoles on forza and halo
Zooke
I can't believe they have reduced this requirement, now a load of less endowed people with small ones are going to be allowed to use Direct Storage.
