Microsoft's advanced shader delivery hopes to solve a big problem for PC gamers: waiting for a game's shaders to compile.

Shader Intrinsic Functions As a result, Advanced Micro Devices is introducing many new features within their GPUOpen program to enable more low-level access to hardware in a console-like ...

Microsoft is creating a new "advanced shader delivery" feature for the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally handhelds that might make loading ...

Compiling the shaders at launch is unnecessary because it's already baked into the game's code. Shaders are turned into PSOs at runtime, so PSO hitching doesn't occur on console platforms.