But couldn't the game benefit from instant loading from selecting your character?
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.
Should be a 5-10 second difference depending on how it's utilized.
It would depend on load times since Gen 4 will definitely be faster than Gen 3 but those are the guesstimates on what to expect currently.
Oh yeah I forgot about that too. I still expect Gen 4 to be better but how much better is to be determined.
I would say yes since you mainly use it for gaming.
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.
Compiled version.
Only reason I'm not running a RAID 0 of my M.2s on my main PC is that for some reason it seems to have caused a shit ton of extra DPC latency in my system (LatencyMon blamed storport.sys).. Reverted to JBOD and it seems to be much better.
dgrdsv is right.
It's also pertinent to point out that, DirectStorage started the Developer Preview program in July of 2021.
Do you have a link to the appropriate vc_redist? My PC doesn't have the right one installed.
It's an exception when a DX12 game doesn't stutter to some degree.
Absolutely correct. DX12 is a very powerful API, but with great power comes something something you know the words already.
Eh, Xbox Series NVME drive is pretty much the same as the PCI Gen 3 drive for read/write speeds, in fact it is slower than my PCI express gen 3 drive. And the 2 lanes of PCI express 4.0 bandwidth on the Series X is equivalent bandwidth to 4 lanes of PCI Express 3.0 on a PC. So I don't think there is going to be such a dramatic difference since I am sure devs will go for what's easiest, ie, having DirectStorage support be similar to what the Series X is doing in games with storage.
Have you tried rearranging your desktop icons and emptying the recycle bin whilst holding Numlock, stutters are gone for me.
SteamOS lets you have resume states across multiple games like on XS? How many games can you have resume states for at once?
Computer APIs aren't cars, this analogy doesn't exactly translate. Computer hardware changes over time, we need new APIs to take advantage of new hardware and features. These concepts don't always scale back to the old way things are done, plain and simple. This isn't an arbitrary change to a concept that already existed, this was an entire pipeline change to adapt to how hardware now actually works, to take advantage of better power efficacy, or new hardware infrastructure.
I'm an idiot. I uploaded a debug version which requires the debug version of MSVC. You get that with Visual Studio but not the public VC redist.
No worries, since I'd got the Hubble imagery with your link, it wasn't a total waste of time.
