One of the most interesting features for the vast audience of gamers promised by Windows 11 is the support for the DirectStorage API, a technology already successfully implemented on the latest Microsoft consoles, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, which should offer significantly greater performance in phase loading. In fact, the DirectStorage API, which can be activated when you are using an SSD, both NVMe and even the slowest SATA III drives, allow you to transfer information directly to the GPU, thus bypassing the CPU, and, to further speed up operations, they also use new GPU decompression techniques, which support higher decompression ratios and bandwidths than CPUs.
Credit: Microsoft First and foremost, it had to be an exclusive feature of the latest version of Windows, but later the Redmond company announced that it would also arrive in Windows 10, although the old stack would be used for storage, basically the set of drivers that allow applications and Windows to communicate with storage devices, leading to lower performance than in Windows 11.
Credit: Microsoft Interested developers are encouraged to download all materials needed to integrate DirectStorage API support into their applications at the following address.
