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DIRECTSTORAGE FINALLY IN A PC

MICROSOFT RELEASED the DirectStorage 1.2 SDK last April, and it has finally reached PC. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart from Insomniac Games will be the first PC game to make use of it—specifically GPU decompression to boost loading times and offer real-time asset loading.

The title was originally on PlayStation 5, and requires a beefy system to play with all the options ticked. If you play at 1080p or better, then it asks for 75GB of SSD

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