Microsoft is expanding its Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD) technology across Windows 11, with Gears of War: E-Day becoming the first game to support the feature across a broad range of AMD, NVIDIA, Intel, and Qualcomm-powered systems. Advanced Shader Delivery is designed to address one of the more persistent issues affecting modern PC games: shader/Pipeline State Object (PSO) compilation. Instead of requiring the user’s CPU to compile large numbers of shaders during the game’s first launch — or just-in-time compiling them dynamically during gameplay — ASD allows precompiled shaders to be delivered alongside the game download. Microsoft says this can both […]
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