Less than two weeks ago, Blizzard, in collaboration with Nvidia, announced that the upcoming Diablo IV will offer support for DLSS 3 technology. Even then, it was speculated that the game could also bring PC players another interesting new technology in the form of DirectStorage from Microsoft.
Users on Income upon closer examination of the game data in the recently ended beta version, they noticed the files dstorage.dll and dstoragecore.dll, which most likely evidence the presence of DirectStorage.
This technology, which is developed by Microsoft, has when using an NVMe SSD drive in combination with Windows 11 reduce recording times by 20 to 40%. So far, the only game that officially supports this feature is Square Enix’s Forspoken, released in January.
Diablo IV would do so became only the second game, which will offer support for this technology. In the past, it was said that DirectStorage should also aim for the next-gen version of the third Witcher in the form of an update. Diablo IV is released on June 6 for PC (Battle.net) and PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S consoles. More information about the game can be found in our impressions from playing the beta.
