Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum are now the first games to support AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution 31 upscaling graphics technology, and more games will get FSR 3 updates in the coming months.
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Patches to enable AMD's FSR 3 support will be added to Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum sometime in early September. It will be added to every DirectX 11 and 12 game sometime in early 2024.
Steam's compatibility layer, Proton, has been upgraded to version 8.0-1. This update requires your GPU to support Vulkan 1.3 but if it does then you'll have access to 18 more games.
The recent Square Enix fantasy action game from Luminous Productions is getting a patch that will include improvements in graphics, performance, and more for the PC and Sony PlayStation 5 platforms.
Microsoft's DirectStorage, the next gen storage API has made its debut in Forspoken. As testing of the new technology continues, more and more interesting aspects of the feature are revealed.
Microsoft promised big things for PC gaming with its new DirectStorage API. The first title to feature the technology, Forspoken, is out and test results definitely look quite impressive.
Intel's latest Graphics beta driver v31.0.101.4090 is out today. The release brings Game On support for the Forspoken game, as well as bug fixes for other games, but there are Known Issues too.
Forspoken, the first title with Microsoft DirectStorage is out, and the early tests show quite promising results. Square Enix claims around 1-2 second loads which happen to indeed be the case mostly.
AMD has released its latest Windows driver, version 23.1.2, today. It resolves a major bug on Windows 11 22H2, that would lead to launch failures. The driver also adds Forspoken support.
Nvidia has launched the latest WHQL-certified Game Ready drivers for Windows. The new 528.24 driver is optimized for Forspoken and Dead Space (2023). It also adds DLSS 3 on some older titles.
Forspoken, the first game to feature Microsoft's DirectStorage API support, has received system requirements today. The announcement confirms Windows 11 is necessary to take advantage of the new API.
The arrival of Microsoft's DirectStorage API in a game has likely been delayed once again as Forspoken, which is the first game to implement the technology, has been pushed back once more.
The first demo using Microsoft's DirectStorage API on Windows PC is here and the gains are impressive. NVMe SSDs are nearly 70% faster and game load times are noticeably better in general.
