I'm not sure exactly when it happened, but one fateful day in the recent past videogames collectively decided that instead of compiling shaders while we were playing a game, it'd compile them before ...

Alright, gamers, let’s talk about that screen. You know the one. You’re all fired up to jump into the game you’ve been waiting months for, only to hit a wall plastered with two haunting words: ...

TL;DR: Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery technology eliminates shader compilation wait times on handheld gaming devices by preloading shaders via the cloud during game downloads. This innovation, ...

Microsoft said Wednesday that it’s working to remove one of the frustrating headaches for PC gamers: the need to compile shaders. Microsoft said that it will release an AgilitySDK in September to ...