Microsoft Shares More Details on Microsoft DirectStorage for PC in April (update)

theoneofgod

2021-02-24 20:22

Really looking forward to games using this. I take it other applications say video editors or Photoshop could make use of it?

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Neo Cyrus

2021-02-24 21:21

Am I the only one who's sick of announcements for announcements?

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Agonist

2021-02-24 22:56

Neo Cyrus:

Am I the only one who's sick of announcements for announcements?

NO, its getting really old, really fast.

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Kaleid

2021-02-25 01:39

Neo Cyrus:

Am I the only one who's sick of announcements for announcements?

Sometimes it feels just like pointless PR, other times it can be a reminder that things still happen.

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mdm

2021-02-25 10:39

I can"t wait for a new storage API! It is the biggest system bottleneck for years!! It is in dire need ever since SSD came into the picture, not to mention NVMe protocol...

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PrMinisterGR

2021-02-25 10:54

Neo Cyrus:

Am I the only one who's sick of announcements for announcements?

Agonist:

NO, its getting really old, really fast.

I'm sick of people like us, who barely have a real concept of how anything works, criticizing people and teams who work like dogs for years. More on the subject, they might announce it as part of the Windows 10 April update, that wouldn't surprise me at all. Along with HAGS and native VRR support, it's an amazing update. Without it we would never be able to catch up to the next generation of consoles.

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PrMinisterGR

2021-02-25 13:06

Kevin Mauro:

lol - *shrugs* I ask what some might call simple questions I guess but I also work in Automation and deal day to day with "so-called" complex issues. But um @PrMinisterGR, to the point - many people here I bet work for companies like Microsoft or are in an engineering team where we would rather see information released when it is "solidified" or ready, than not. A lot can go wrong between development and ready for release, we often see companies have to go back on and or revise previously released statements. People literally are clamoring about CD Projekt Red everywhere right now.. sometimes it pays off not to say too much and just release information matching only what you actually have not what you plan to have.

There are no multiple announcments. Microsoft presented it as part of the Xbox, then said it would be part of Windows. Now they will say when that will happen and have more details.

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James Frazer

2021-02-25 19:32

Some people get excited about the next scientific documentary, some get excited by the next episode of Hollyoaks or TOWIE... while others get excited flicking through the new Radio Times. Wherever you fit in, is it really worth getting annoyed by ANY of it?

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kakiharaFRS

2021-04-21 09:52

PrMinisterGR:

I'm sick of people like us, who barely have a real concept of how anything works, criticizing people and teams who work like dogs for years.

you're not wrong, me sighing at people who say "just release x nm already" as if semi-conductor wasn't one of if not the most complex industry in the world

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ThEcLiT

2021-04-21 14:09

"DirectStorage will be supported on certain systems with NVMe drives and work to bring your gaming experience to the next level" Let the milking begins... edit: oh ... https://i.imgur.com/WnRZv49.png

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shadex

2021-04-21 17:14

Microsoft is said to be in talks with Microsoft about an acquisition worth $ 10 billion (8.3 billion euros), Bloomberg news agency reports Tuesday.

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bobnewels

2021-04-21 17:19

Thanks for the April 21 2021 update. Good job Microsoft

The new technology will also be compatible with NVMe SSDs based on PCI-Express Gen 3

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EspHack

2021-04-21 19:01

its sad how we've had SSDs for almost a decade and there's only one game sort of making use of it on pc I mean, whats "pc" gaming anyway...

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Reddoguk

2021-04-21 19:25

I was gonna say Gen4 only? My Gen3 4tb MP400 hit's 3500 and 3000 speeds which is still pretty fast. Ok it's not 7000 speed or even 5000 but for me it's still super fast.

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Alessio1989

2021-04-21 20:29

realtime xpress8k compression on storage, with automatically recompression, would be fine too.

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BuildeR2

2021-04-22 10:18

I'm sure I'm misunderstanding something here, but is slide 10 indicating that all past games and apps will benefit from DirectStorage API when they say "Pure Windows OS improvements. No developer action required"?

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Astyanax

2021-04-22 11:10

BuildeR2:

I'm sure I'm misunderstanding something here, but is slide 10 indicating that all past games and apps will benefit from DirectStorage API when they say "Pure Windows OS improvements. No developer action required"?

no

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theoneofgod

2021-04-22 11:43

BuildeR2:

I'm sure I'm misunderstanding something here, but is slide 10 indicating that all past games and apps will benefit from DirectStorage API when they say "Pure Windows OS improvements. No developer action required"?

Interested to see what they mean exactly by "Pure Windows OS improvements. No developer action required"

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Astyanax

2021-04-23 08:47

theoneofgod:

Interested to see what they mean exactly by "Pure Windows OS improvements. No developer action required"

its misleading, the developer still has to be using a MSVC toolset that is aware of directstorage features so the resulting binary knows how to use it. It won't magically work in existing games.

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Erick

2021-04-23 09:55

rkb:

I just hope they make the feature available for gen 3 SSDs

Yes. It's compatible with Gen 3 NVMe SSD's and any GPU that supports DirectX 12, which are most current NVIDIA GPU's. Most likely Keplar and above NVIDIA GPU's. For AMD, my guess is anything near the HD series GPU's will not support it. Microsoft keeps using their commercial verbiage around it, so what they say publicly is blurred. As far as what games will support it, well anything stored and ran from the set NVMe will use the NVMe pipeline directly to the GPU. My only question is, if you build a RAID array with NVMe's mixed with regular SSD's will this still work. I'm guessing as long as there is an NVMe for the GPU to use then it should work, but that's a large guess.