{"id":90470,"date":"2026-10-01T12:13:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90470"},"modified":"2026-10-01T12:40:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:40:51","slug":"gears-of-war-e-day-has-a-clever-solution-to-one-of-pc-gamings-biggest-annoyances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90470","title":{"rendered":"Gears Of War: E-Day Has A Clever Solution To One Of PC Gaming\u2019s Biggest Annoyances"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gears-of-war-e-day-preload-times-install-size-and-global-launch-dates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Early access<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/gears-of-war-e-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gears of War: E-Day<\/a> has kicked off for anyone who bought the Premium Edition, and if you&#8217;re on PC, you&#8217;re probably dreading the traditional shader compilation\u00a0wait that comes with it. There&#8217;s good news, as Gears of War: E-Day supports a neat feature on this platform that cuts down on that process significantly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Called Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD), it addresses how modern games rely on shaders to calculate how light, shadows, reflections, and textures should look on screen. This usually involves you sitting for a while when you first boot up a game after installing it, resulting in the infamous &#8220;Compiling Shaders&#8221; loading bar. In comparison, ASD is like buying a Gundam model kit\u00a0that&#8217;s already assembled, right out of the box.<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xTxwN-Ck1Zw  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ASD pre-translates and delivers shader files directly to your device ahead of time, so you wait mere seconds. It also works across a wide variety of systems, and while I haven&#8217;t installed Gears of War: E-Day on my main PC yet, I did load it up on my Asus Xbox ROG Ally X. The shader compilation waiting time was around 20 seconds, far better than\u00a0waiting up to 15 minutes as I&#8217;ve experienced\u00a0with other new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early access for Gears of War: E-Day has kicked off for anyone who bought the Premium Edition, and if you&#8217;re on PC, you&#8217;re probably dreading the traditional shader compilation\u00a0wait that comes with it. There&#8217;s good news, as Gears of War: E-Day supports a neat feature on this platform that cuts down on that process significantly&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":90472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90473,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90470\/revisions\/90473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}