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End Stutter with 2026's Shader Fixes and Afterburner 4.6.7

For years, streamers and competitive gamers have battled invisible stutter caused by shader compilation, a process that forces your GPU to pause and compile graphics code on the fly. Now, with ...
Digital Production

OptiDraw paints animated meshes inside Unity

OptiDraw adds in editor painting for static and animated meshes in Unity, with vertex, splat, layers, UDIM support, shader ...
Wall Street Journal

The Hunt for Extraterrestrial Life Enters a New Frontier

“USA250: The Story of the World’s Greatest Economy” is a yearlong WSJ series examining America’s first 250 years. Read more about it from Editor in Chief Emma Tucker. Imagine the first convincing ...
TweakTown

Unreal Engine 5 may be getting Microsoft's DirectX 12 Advanced Shader Delivery

Last month, Microsoft announced it is bringing Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD) for Windows to PC gamers via the latest AgilitySDK 1.619 release. The feature was originally unveiled by Microsoft's ...
Ars Technica

Nvidia rolls out its fix for PC gaming’s “compiling shaders” wait times

PC gamers who are tired of waiting for their games to “compile shaders” during some load times may want to dig into the latest beta version of the Nvidia App. Alongside new DLSS 4.5 Multi Frame ...
GameSpot

Nvidia Is Attempting To Solve One Of PC Gaming's Biggest Problems: Shader Compilation

One of the most frustrating aspects of modern PC gaming is how long you can be stuck waiting for a new game to finish compiling its shaders the first time you boot it up. The second most frustrating ...
HotHardware

Will Arc A-Series GPUs Get Precompiled Shader Support? Here's What Intel Says

You may recall that just a couple of days ago we posted about Intel's new Arc Graphics Precompiled Shader Distribution. This is an implementation of Microsoft's ...
ascopubs.org

Trodelvy use in advanced triple negative breast cancer in Australia (TRACIE): Study design and interim analysis.

Exploring the impact of SBRT on dendritic cells in the tumor microenvironment of triple-negative breast cancer: Insights from combination with thymosin α1. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the ...
HotHardware

Intel Arc GPUs Get Precompiled Shaders For Up To 3x Faster Game Loads

If there's one thing PC gamers universally despise, it's shader compilation stutters, but it's also a drag to launch a brand-new game, ready to play, only to be greeted by a "Compiling Shaders" ...
ExtremeTech

Intel's Precompiled Shaders Cut Game Loading Times in Half

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Fudzilla

Chipzilla finally fixes shader stutter with a cloud cache trick

Intel has found a way to stop its Arc users staring at loading bars like it is 2012. Last year, Microsoft’s DirectX “AgilitySDK” picked up “Advanced Shader Delivery”, and now Intel is flipping the ...