Announcement on the DirectX Dev Blog
Edit: check Threadmarks for the compiled version and how to run the demo if you're interested.
Edit: check Threadmarks for the compiled version and how to run the demo if you're interested.
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You mean the next-gen update? big if true... but I'm not sure if that was officially announced anywhere? I seem to remember they mentioned ray-tracing and texture upgrades but didn't clarify further.
That's cool, I wonder if devs already had access to it or is it just now being made available? If so, I don't know when we will start game support for this feature.
Also for those interested, there will be 2 session about DirectStorage on GDC.
Also for those interested, there will be 2 session about DirectStorage on GDC.
Yes, but windows 11 is recommended for all the benefits I believe
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IIRC, devs had access to this on a case by case basis around July last year when it was first announced https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directstorage-developer-preview-now-available/
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Last time I ran Intel's Sampler Feedback Streaming demo on my PC https://github.com/GameTechDev/SamplerFeedbackStreaming and under benchmark mode (rapid, almost inhuman camera movement with 100% unique textures) it was loading tiles from disk at a continuous 2-3 GB/s per second (SN850, old IO stack), it has now been updated to support DirectStorage like 30 mins ago, will test on my Win11 machine later.
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DX12 does NOT cause stutter... bad coding by graphics engineers/engine devs causes stutter, period.
Is there a compiled version for download?
Looking forward to your results
I imagine upcoming MS titles will utilise it. Perhaps Starfield and Forza this year
Excited to see the results
Forspoken in October and supposedly the Witcher 3 remastered but there's no source on that
I wonder if we'll see existing games patched this in or would it require much more re-work even if DX12 is supported?
very cool. I assume we're at least a year away from this mattering? Maybe this fall from big Xbox releases?
It sounds awesome, but I can't help but be skeptical.
DX12 sounded awesome too, and now we have games with terrible stuttering that can't be fixed with mods because it gives all the control to developers, so who knows how this will turn out. Maybe my concerns are unfounded this time and it's a way different situation 🤷♂️
DX12 sounded awesome too, and now we have games with terrible stuttering that can't be fixed with mods because it gives all the control to developers, so who knows how this will turn out. Maybe my concerns are unfounded this time and it's a way different situation 🤷♂️
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No, you have to compile on your machine.... will see about sharing binaries once I'm done.
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Fall sounds about right, Forspoken is the first game AFAIK that will utilize this on PC... releasing in October.
What are the hardware requirements?
This. Plenty of DX12 games run perfectly.
Forspoken aside is there any news of any other upcoming early supporter for this API?
It would be interesting to put it to the test.
It would be interesting to put it to the test.
I imagine Nvidia will be piggybacking this with an update on the RTX IO: GPU-Accelerated Storage Technology pretty shortly, given that it utilizes the DirectStorage API.
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Win10/11 (though they recommend 11 for the better IO stack) and any 1TB nVMe Gen3/4 SSD.
Learned my raid 0 lesson when one of the drives crashed and I had to re-do everything. Not worth it! I knew the risks and everything going in, but when it happens to you, it just sucks.
I wonder why the size is relevant? Series S has a much smaller drive.
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I mean, if the disks are being used for certain types of data, total array failure doesn't matter... probably have to consume lots of bandwidth to re-download all the games that were on it though... curious where they store the save files though.
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I remember when Win 11 was close to release they kept changing that requirement (the size specifically between 512 GB/1TB)... probably because the lower capacity SSDs are usually slower, especially Gen3 ones.
Finished the build on Saturday. It's already pretty dang fast to load software, etc, but you're still not talking about PS5 exclusive load speeds even with a 12900K. I generally target builds at new OSs, so it's great seeing resizable BAR, auto HDR etc. And I'm obviously very ready to take advantage of direct storage too.
I've run multiple raid setups and know the risk. I won't put data on this that isn't getting backed up to the cloud, and you may be surprised to hear this, but installing windows from USB was *pretty fast*. The entire build was done without copying over any data from my old PC. Everything came from the cloud and thanks to Game Pass and Steam that included most of my save games. There's some Epic Games Store games I have that don't use built in cloud saves, but nothing I'm particularly worried about having lost. Starting from an empty hard drive is pretty easy these days if you're invested in Microsoft's eco system.
The main thing would be redownloading whatever games I want to play. Flight Sim took quite a while to download (especially with the free content packs).
Mainly, the appeal of RAID 0 here was as much about giving me a single 4 TB volume to throw games at, vs my old build where my fast storage was circa 800 GB and I regularly had to move and juggle software between that and a large 7200 RPM secondary volume.
One of the most notable improvements with this build so far are load times, but I know we're barely scratching the surface until we get direct storage and games developed for it.
While any game can benefit, something like SF6 isn't the ideal candidate for this, since you're dealing with generally constrained environments, and you aren't bringing nearly as much in and out of memory on the fly. Games with large open worlds like Forspoken are going to most notably benefit from things like this, I'd imagine.
Sampler Feedback Streaming Demo [With DirectStorage Support]
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Ok, just ran the demo again... reads at 4-5 GB/s using 16K textures with the Hubble demo :)
I just uploaded the binaries https://mega.nz/file/ZFEX0QyL#CYzxvlHsPSSZU7pb2D9-g0tBB3mQaR8zjX10pX5S7HM (compiled for x64 versions of Windows against Win 11 SDK), Virus Total: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file...3338cc13d1fbfe850849726f0d4f1ec2b8d/detection
Please, do NOT trust any links on the Internet, kindly compare the hash of the 7z file with the VirusTotal result before running any executables on your PC.
The binaries do not include the 16K textures, but you can download them from the Github repository on this link: https://github.com/GameTechDev/SamplerFeedbackStreaming/releases/download/1/hubble-16k.zip and then extract to the media dir
You can run the demo using the following command (from CMD/Powershell), and if you want to stress the SSD/Streaming Solution you can try benchmark mode
Edit: Note: the demo intentionally amplifies the conditions in which data needs to be streamed from disk and thus is not reflective of real-world gaming scenarios.
I just uploaded the binaries https://mega.nz/file/ZFEX0QyL#CYzxvlHsPSSZU7pb2D9-g0tBB3mQaR8zjX10pX5S7HM (compiled for x64 versions of Windows against Win 11 SDK), Virus Total: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file...3338cc13d1fbfe850849726f0d4f1ec2b8d/detection
Please, do NOT trust any links on the Internet, kindly compare the hash of the 7z file with the VirusTotal result before running any executables on your PC.
The binaries do not include the 16K textures, but you can download them from the Github repository on this link: https://github.com/GameTechDev/SamplerFeedbackStreaming/releases/download/1/hubble-16k.zip and then extract to the media dir
You can run the demo using the following command (from CMD/Powershell), and if you want to stress the SSD/Streaming Solution you can try benchmark mode
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.\demo-hubble.bat -mediadir .\media\hubble-16k\Edit: Note: the demo intentionally amplifies the conditions in which data needs to be streamed from disk and thus is not reflective of real-world gaming scenarios.
You mean on windows. Fat chance that would require current windows being redone in a way MS won't cause it will mess with legacy base.
SteamOS does it if you use it.