Microsoft said Wednesday that it’s working to remove one of the frustrating headaches for PC gamers: the need to compile shaders. Microsoft said that it will release an AgilitySDK in September to ...

Modern gamers are used to loading up a new game for the first time and being forced to wait multiple minutes while a “compiling shaders” step whirs away, optimizing advanced 3D effects for their ...

PC gaming is wonderful. You can customize games as much as you desire, run them at high framerates, and enjoy all sorts of other useful advantages. But one really annoying part of gaming on a PC in ...

Borderlands 4 developer Gearbox has asked PC gamers to wait 15 minutes for shaders to compile in the background while playing after some said this week’s update had caused increased stuttering. The ...

Frustrated you can’t get stuck in? Here’s how to fix the compiling shaders loop for Dragon’s Dogma 2 on PC. Issues with Capcom’s latest game have all focused on the total lack of optimisation in-game.

Microsoft has unveiled Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD), a new technology aimed at reducing one of the most common annoyances in modern PC gaming: lengthy shader compilation screens. The feature allows ...

This hidden Steam feature can quietly prepare game data for you ahead of time.