We’ve been waiting for Microsoft’s DirectStorage, the backbone of Xbox Series X’s super-fast storage technology, to come to Windows. Year now.After being released to developers last spring, it’s finally here to bring that deep-optimized storage hook to Square Enix’s prophesied, released to middling review this week…and no review copy for PC reviewers. So is the lightning-fast, no-load future of PC gaming finally here?
maybe? prophesied Sure, it boasts some pretty impressive load times, but it’s unclear how much DirectStorage itself will make a difference in this game if you already have a fast NVMe SSD.
First, good news. As spotted by Neowin, several users have reported achieving extremely fast loading times on their PCs. (User reports are important in the early days, as PC review copies are not provided.) Twitter User load all of prophesied‘s benchmark scene played in less than 2 seconds. This is what I measured in game. Impressive!
— who follows me on Twitter, hey JJDizz1L! — posted an equally impressive video. prophesied Exit the game and select “Continue” and it will launch almost instantly. “Don’t blink, you’ll miss it,” he says, and it’s true.this is How nice!
But are they the result of DirectStorage or prophesied Load times are super fast. On the r/hardware subreddit, user skipan noticed that the game loads instantly only if you continue from the latest save. “They seem to be ‘cheating’ by preloading the latest save file onto the Start screen,” Schipan said. “The newest loads immediately, the older into a loading screen. This really helps the player’s experience, but benchmarking requires loading older saves.”
Skipan helpfully uploaded the following YouTube video showing the difference in load times after saving twice in the exact same location.
As far as BlooHook’s two second load time is concerned, our very own Adam Patrick Murray said, prophesied Microsoft says DirectStorage works on both Windows 10 and 11 and is ostensibly optimized for the new OS, but Square Enix said: prophesiedDirectStorage support only applies to Windows 11.
Finally, there is one reviewer report. Wccftech Benchmarked prophesiedLoad times on our advanced gaming rig (Intel Core i7-12700KF, 16GB of DDR4 RAM, GeForce RTX 4090, WD Black SN850 NVMe SSD) were good, but not great. Some scenes loaded in less than 2 seconds, but the longest took 7.5 seconds and 9.5 seconds.
“The average load time (not provided in the benchmark, so I calculated it manually) was 4.30 seconds, which is not what we expected from DirectStorage compared to the 1 second load available on the PS5,” the site reports. doing.
Square Enix’s Sunil Godhania said yesterday on the Steam forums: For a SATA SSD, it may take about 10 seconds, but he says “load time may vary depending on other hardware configurations and storage in use for his device.”
So what’s really going on here? Despite Square Enix’s claims of Windows 11 exclusivity, does DirectStorage significantly reduce NVMe load times on Windows 10 and 11? is it optimized to load lightning fast on Windows 10? How important are your PC specs? That his Wccftech rig sure is ferocious.
We should look deeper and see more games implement DirectStorage, especially since other PC users have reported that the game is a bit of a technical mess. prophesied A demo is available if you want to try it yourself. ) but a few things are clear. beginning, prophesied I care about impressive load times no matter what, especially when resuming from the last save, and would love to see more of that, regardless of the cause. Even PC gamers absolutely These days I like to game on NVMe SSDs instead of SATA drives if possible. Our roundup of the best SSDs will help you pick your gem.
