How a game looks is one of its most important factors, especially in an age of photo-realism and ray tracing. So, even if you're playing one of the most aesthetically uncomplicated video games to come ...

Linköping-based independent studio Beartwigs recently released their debut game, Romestead. A survival townbuilder set in a fallen Ancient Rome, it challenges players to rebuild the civilisation and ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery has officially left the Xbox Insider program and is now available through the Xbox PC app. The update also brings a ...

Microsoft has unveiled Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD), a new technology aimed at reducing one of the most common annoyances in modern PC gaming: lengthy shader compilation screens. The feature allows ...

AMD’s Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD) technology dramatically reduces game shader loading times by over 95% in supported titles like Forza Horizon 6. PCWorld reports that ASD requires an AMD RDNA GPU, ...

Compute shaders deferred (no use case in roadmap). Stack-arg routing for fn-types deferred (V3 cap is 8 args, sufficient). Linux Vulkan parity deferred (Metal-first ships now, parity is dedicated ...

It may be hard to believe, but this August will be eight years since the release of the original GeForce RTX GPUs. Over time, matrix math accelerators have come to consume more and more of our GPU ...

PC gamers who are tired of waiting for their games to “compile shaders” during some load times may want to dig into the latest beta version of the Nvidia App. Alongside new DLSS 4.5 Multi Frame ...

NVIDIA has introduced a new beta feature called Auto Shader Compilation, or ASC, through the latest NVIDIA App update, and it targets a familiar pain point in modern PC gaming: long initial loading ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. With the release of DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Frame Generation with up to 6X Multi Frame Generation, the latest NVIDIA App update is also introducing the new Auto ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. One of the most frustrating aspects of modern PC gaming is how long ...

TL;DR: PC gamers have likely noticed frequent stuttering or lengthy shader-compilation loading screens in many titles over the past few years. Microsoft unveiled a potential solution to the problem ...