Microsoft DirectStorage sounds ambitious: it will reduce the processor load of Windows 11

Announcing that it will bring DirectStorage support, one of the most important developments of new generation consoles, to Windows last week, Microsoft made new statements about the technology that will revolutionize PC games.

Will reduce the processor load

As it is known, DirectStorage, which takes advantage of the high data transfer rates of NVMe drives, prevents processor restrictions and ensures that data is sent to the graphics card quickly. In addition to this improvement in data transfer, Microsoft says that DirectStorage support on Windows 11 computers running NVMe SSDs can reduce the processor load by up to 40 percent.

Microsoft software engineer Cooper, who said that an SSD solution with a speed of at least 2.5 GB/s is recommended and the new feature, which is also supported by the Windows 10 operating system, is “not the same as the Xbox version and was created specifically for the PC” Partin stated that DirectStorage will use an optimized IO layer built on Win32 APIs in Windows 10 and will offer the highest performance for throughput.

In addition, the new technology, which will be of great benefit in decompressing and loading compressed data in parallel, will also allow game developers to create multiple data compression groups.