{"id":91757,"date":"2026-10-21T13:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T17:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91757"},"modified":"2026-10-21T14:36:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T18:36:54","slug":"nvidia-just-tackled-one-of-pc-gamings-biggest-headaches-shader-compilation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91757","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia Just Tackled One Of PC Gaming\u2019s Biggest Headaches: Shader Compilation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the most annoying things about PC games is how long they can take to start, thanks to the traditional shader compilation a game goes through after installation or after getting new drivers. The silver bullet to this might be Microsoft&#8217;s Advanced Shader Delivery, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gears-of-war-e-day-has-a-clever-solution-to-one-of-pc-gamings-biggest-annoyances\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">used in Gears of War: E-Day<\/a> to drastically cut down on its initial launch, and Nvidia graphics card owners can also take advantage of this technology starting today with the release of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/geforce\/news\/phantom-blade-zero-nvidia-geforce-game-ready-driver\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">version 621.01<\/a>\u00a0drivers. AMD has featured this technology for a while now, but with Nvidia included, ASD will be open to the vast majority of the PC gaming community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Available for Nvidia RTX and RTX Spark graphics cards, ASD reduces shader compilation times by downloading precompiled shaders. For now, only two games support ASD&#8211;the new Gears of War prequel and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4. Combined with Nvidia&#8217;s Automatic Shader Compilation, which is designed to prevent shaders from needing to be recompiled after you install new drivers, this should make for a pretty seamless approach to installing a game and playing it right away, something which console owners have enjoyed for years. This is down to consoles only having one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most annoying things about PC games is how long they can take to start, thanks to the traditional shader compilation a game goes through after installation or after getting new drivers. The silver bullet to this might be Microsoft&#8217;s Advanced Shader Delivery, which was used in Gears of War: E-Day to drastically&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":91759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91757","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\/91757"}],"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=91757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91760,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91757\/revisions\/91760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}