Blizzard recently announced that they will be enabling DirectStorage for Diablo 4 in the future.
Will gaming on Wine support this feature as new games start to enable it?
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As far as I understand there are two benefits DirectStorage has, one is making load times faster while using less CPU resources and another one allows the GPU to almost entirely bypass the CPU and use the storage directly. Hopefully the first feature would be easier to implement because it doesn’t need the GPU drivers.
Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty and Starfield are two upcoming games that require SSD to play, presumably because of DirectStorage, curious to see what will the performance be like on Linux using Wine
Last I was aware, there wasn’t anything for wine/proton to hook into to enable support. I know nvidia added extensions for some of the functionality, but I don’t think there’s anything ready to actually use it on Linux yet.
I may be wrong, but I think DirectStorage is just part of the D3D API and being translated to Vulkan with VKD3D.
What is DirectStorage?
Movement of stuff from SSD to GPU without accessing CPU/RAM.
provides parallel reads from nvme ssds through the PCIE connections both the GPU and SSD connect to.
