{"id":8206,"date":"2026-10-26T20:16:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T19:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultimatemove.eu\/?p=8206"},"modified":"2026-10-26T20:16:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T19:16:46","slug":"advanced-shader-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultimatemove.eu\/en\/advanced-shader-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced Shader Delivery in Windows 11: precompiled shaders instead of stutter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Advanced Shader Delivery in Windows 11 is a Microsoft mechanism that downloads ready, compiled shaders together with the game.<\/strong> Your PC does not have to compile them on first launch or during play, so loading is shorter and shader stutter goes down. Since driver 621.01 it also works on NVIDIA GeForce RTX cards, but only in selected games and, for now, mainly through the Xbox app.<\/p>\n

Where shader stutter comes from<\/h2>\n

A DirectX 12 game has to translate shaders into code your graphics card understands. This happens on your PC: on first launch, after a game update and after every driver change. If compilation happens during play, you see a stutter. That is why the first evening after a driver update is often worse than the next one.<\/p>\n

What Advanced Shader Delivery does<\/h2>\n

The game developer prepares a database of graphics pipeline states and sends it to Microsoft. Shaders compiled for your card and driver land on the drive together with the game, so your PC does not compile them itself.<\/p>\n

Microsoft says ASD cuts loading by up to 90 percent. In Forza Horizon 6 it showed 4 seconds instead of almost a minute and a half, on a Radeon RX 7600 with a Ryzen 7 5800. For Gears of War: E-Day it talks about cutting the first launch by up to 95 percent. These are Microsoft's measurements on its own hardware, so treat them as the best possible result.<\/p>\n

When it works, the game's launch window shows the message \"Precompiled shaders installed\".<\/p>\n

Requirements<\/h2>\n