Not everyone has the luxury of owning a high-powered PC with the most up-to-date graphics card on the market. However, that does not mean that a Minecraft player may be out of luck when it comes to ...

Microsoft launched Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD) last year as part of the DirectX SDK, but it was limited to only the ROG Xbox Ally devices at the time. The feature was always intended to eventually ...

We finally have games taking full advantage of the speed of a solid state drive and, bam! Shader compilation. Games require a whole lot of custom code, in the form of shaders, in order to look as good ...

You may recall that just a couple of days ago we posted about Intel's new Arc Graphics Precompiled Shader Distribution. This is an implementation of Microsoft's ...

TL;DR: Intel has introduced its Graphics Shader Distribution Service in the latest driver, boosting first-time load speeds up to 2x on Arc B-series GPUs and integrated Arc graphics in Intel Core Ultra ...

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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 ...

A little over three years ago, Intel lured AMD's former Radeon Technologies Group (RTG) boss Raja Koduri to come over and lead its own efforts in graphics, at which time Intel also announced it ...

At GDC 2026 this week, Microsoft, Intel, and Nvidia announced a new method for delivering precompiled shaders as part of game downloads, eliminating the long wait times when gamers first boot up a ...