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Microsoft revealed the Xbox Velocity Architecture last July, showing off some background work and ideas that had gone into the Xbox Series X/S, to bring true next gen gaming to the masses. Some of the key aspects of this architecture are to do with storage – getting the stored data to the CPU and GPU as fast as possible, with minimum latency and sustained performance so game designers feel less restricted, especially in imagining open world games. The DirectStorage API was highlighted as one of the four pillars of the Xbox Velocity Architecture, and it is on the way to Windows 10 PCs. At th...

Xbox Developers Now Have Full Access to AMD FidelityFX Tools Apr 20, 2021 18:42 EDT Microsoft’s Xbox consoles share most of their big games with the PC, and going forward, crossplay development is going to be just a little bit easier. Today during Microsoft’s Game Stack Live event, it was announced that AMD FidelityFX is now fully supported on Xbox Series X/S. Here’s what AMD had to say about FidelityFX entering the console space… Today, we are very happy to announce that AMD FidelityFX is now available for Xbox! This news makes it even easier than before to write cross-platform ...

Back when the Xbox Series X/S consoles were announced, we knew that Microsoft went for a fully-featured RDNA 2 GPU for the system, enabling compatibility with FidelityFX features. Now, AMD’s additional graphics and performance enhancing features are officially coming to Xbox consoles, paving the way for these features to become more widely used by both …

Great news for users with PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSDs on April 21, 2021, 13:38 Why it matters: Microsoft during its recent Game Stack Live (GSL) 2021 event confirmed that its upcoming DirectStorage API for the PC will be compatible with PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSDs. That's important considering PCIe 3.0 drives are much more plentiful than their newer counterparts and PCIe 4.0 drives are limited to just a handful of newer platforms. Up to this point, it was widely assumed that the tech would only work with the latest PCIe 4.0 drives. The tech won’t work with SATA drives, however, as that ...

Source: Windows Central Xbox Game Pass is in the news almost non-stop lately. The service provides access to dozens upon dozens of games big and small on a variety of devices including Xbox consoles, Windows PCs, and Android devices. Soon, Xbox Game Pass will also include iOS and web browsers after a global beta test. Xbox Game Pass cloud streaming brings games built for Xbox to a far broader audience than would otherwise be possible. However, the bridge between a game made for the TV on your Xbox and a game made for a smaller screen like a tablet or a phone is quite a large delta. Even the b...