[SOLVED] A question about NVMe SSD requirement for Direct Storage

[zm210803]

A requirement set for being able to use Direct Storage is that it requires a PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD. I’m confused whether the requirement would be for the windows os to be on the SSD or the game or both?

 

[sizzling]

Interesting question. From what I read Direct Storage is supported by PCIe 3.0 as well. I could not find a detailed answer but I would be pretty confident the game needs to be on the NVMe drive, not so sure about Windows.

As it’s a new feature to Win11 and no games support it yet it’s probably best to wait until the first games that have the feature release and see what the reviews say.

 

[zesun]

It would make no sense if it required the os to be on the same disc as the game. So i am certain that it only requires the game to be on the ssd.