Microsoft DirectStorage 1.1 Now Available

[StefanM]

The DirectStorage team is pleased to share that GPU decompression with DirectStorage 1.1 is available now. This new version of DirectStorage contains everything a developer needs to get started with GPU decompression. For more information on this feature and how it benefits gamers, check out our previous blog post: DirectStorage 1.1 Coming Soon.

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Microsoft's instructions for the bulk load demo was TL;DR (actually i was stuck how to copy the avocado sample)

Intel's sample works on NVIDIA, if i untick DirectStorage, bandwidth increases, i'm not sure if that is expected behaviour?

 

[vietanh2901]

The problem is that this need the actual game developer to leverage. I never understand the appeal of DirectStorage when we have 24gb VRAM GPU.

 

[StefanM]

DirectStorage GDeflate Reference Implementation Now Available​

The GDeflate reference implementation is now available from the DirectStorage repo on GitHub. Developers can use this to easily integrate GDeflate into their asset compression tool chains and build compatible compressors. The compression and decompression algorithms are open sourced under the Apache 2.0 license.

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Finally i could run the dancing avocados...