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Intel's new precompiled shader distribution can improve game loading times by up to 3x on Arc GPUs

Microsoft launched Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD) last year as part of the DirectX SDK, but it was limited to only the ROG Xbox Ally devices at the time. The feature was always intended to eventually ...
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Intel begins bundling pre-compiled shaders into Arc drivers for up to 2x faster load times

We finally have games taking full advantage of the speed of a solid state drive and, bam! Shader compilation. Games require a whole lot of custom code, in the form of shaders, in order to look as good ...
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Intel must also hate waiting for shaders to compile as it begins rollout of pre-compiled code from the cloud for faster load times

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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 ...