Gears of War: E-Day Uses Advanced Shader Delivery to Cut PC Shader Compilation Waits

Early access for Gears of War: E-Day has begun for Premium Edition buyers, and the PC version supports Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD), which pre-translates and delivers shader files ahead of time to cut first-boot compilation waits to seconds. The author measured about 20 seconds of shader compilation on an Asus Xbox ROG Ally X, compared with waits of up to 15 minutes in other new games. ASD works across AMD, Intel, Nvidia and Qualcomm hardware, is currently available for AMD graphics card users, and Nvidia-compatible drivers will arrive shortly after launch; E-Day is the first game to support ASD across Windows devices.