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AMD Adrenalin 26.5.2 brings Microsoft advanced shader delivery to RDNA 3 and RDNA 4, speeding up game loads

Shader compilation stutter has been one of PC gaming’s most persistent annoyances for years, and Microsoft just took a meaningful swing at fixing it on AMD hardware. The AMD Software: Adrenalin ...
PC World

Microsoft wants to soothe a big pain for PC gamers: Shaders

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 ...
Game Rant

AMD Tech Reduces Game Load Times By 95%

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...
TechSpot

Microsoft's shader stutter fix is now available for all AMD Radeon GPUs, Nvidia users have to wait

Something to look forward to: Microsoft has gradually rolled out its solution to shader compilation stutter since last year. The latest update for the feature, called Advanced Shader Delivery, just ...
TechSpot

Nvidia, AMD, and Intel back Microsoft's plan to fix shader compilation stutter

TL;DR: PC gamers have likely noticed frequent stuttering or lengthy shader-compilation loading screens in many titles over the past few years. Microsoft unveiled a potential solution to the problem ...