If you’ve heard the terms Forspoken and DirectStorage Support being used in the same sentence and want to know more about it then you’re at the right place. Forspoken is a new AAA action-RPG title developed by Luminous Productions and published by Square Enix. This game is exclusively for PS5 and Windows users. According to the system requirements, PC users will need high-end hardware to play this game in 4K resolution. But this is one of the first games to make use of Microsoft’s DirectStorage technology. This guide will tell you how it’ll affect your gameplay.
How DirectStorage Support affects Forspoken
To put it in simple terms, Microsoft’s DirectStorage API Support will reduce the loading time in Forspoken. With this new technology, you won’t have to keep staring at the loading animation for long. To make the best use of this feature, it is recommended you have an NVMe SSD. This superior storage device performs notably well than its SATA counterpart. To showcase the performance difference between normal HDDs, SATA SSDs, and NVMe SSDs, Luminous Productions released a video on Youtube called “Technologies of FORSPOKEN”. Here, you will notice that a normal HDD took 21.5 seconds to load the game. On the other hand, a SATA SSD took 3.7 seconds, and an M.2 took 1.9 seconds to do the same. That’s a stark difference of 19.6 seconds between an HDD and an NVMe SSD.
Since this is a new technology used in games, given time, it will flourish even more. And it’ll also give you time to replace your old HDD with the brand-new NVMe SSD or at least a SATA SSD.
We hope this guide helped you to understand how Microsoft’s DirectStorage Support will affect your Forspoken gameplay. While you are here, you can check more helpful guides in our Forspoken section on GamerTweak.