Microsoft's Precompiled Shaders Cut Gears of War: E-Day's First Launch Wait by 95 Percent

Microsoft said on October 1 that Advanced Shader Delivery, which downloads shaders prebuilt for your GPU instead of compiling them on first launch, is live for Gears of War: E-Day in the Xbox PC app. Microsoft says it cuts first-launch shader compilation by about 95 percent, from several minutes to seconds. AMD RDNA cards and Snapdragon X2 work now. Nvidia RTX and Intel Arc support arrives later in October, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is named as a future title.