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Level up your Minecraft graphics and FPS

Minecraft can look stunning and run smoothly with the right mix of mods, shaders, and settings tweaks. From DLSS debates to shader pack choices, players are finding smarter ways to balance visuals and ...
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 ...
TweakTown

NVIDIA App's new 'Auto Shader Compilation' feature speeds up game loading and reduces stuttering

TL;DR: NVIDIA's new Auto Shader Compilation feature, available in Beta with driver 595.97 or newer, rebuilds DirectX 12 shaders during PC idle time after updates to reduce load times and in-game ...
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 ...
MLive

Zombies in the abyss? Something fishy is happening in Lake Superior

Something fishy is happening hundreds of feet beneath the surface of Lake Superior: “Zombie fish” are swimming in the abyss. Over the past 10 years, there’s been an increasing number of mystifyingly ...
9to5Mac

Reddit will soon make ‘fishy’ accounts verify their humanity

Are you human? If not, Reddit wants to know. The company shared today that it plans to introduce “human verification” requirements for accounts it detects as “fishy” and likely not human. Reddit wants ...
Sportskeeda

How to use shaders in Minecraft 26.1

Mojang has finally released the Minecraft 26.1 Tiny Takeover game drop on March 24, 2026. Compared to previous game drops, this update is slightly smaller because it only brings updated models and ...
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 ...
TweakTown

Intel's latest Arc update cuts game load times by up to 3x by adding pre-compiled shaders, and it already supports 13 games

TL;DR: Intel has introduced its Graphics Shader Distribution Service in the latest driver, boosting first-time load speeds up to 2x on Arc B-series GPUs and integrated Arc graphics in Intel Core Ultra ...
ExtremeTech

Intel's Precompiled Shaders Cut Game Loading Times in Half

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TechSpot

Nvidia, AMD, and Intel back Microsoft's plan to fix shader compilation stutter

TL;DR: PC gamers have likely noticed frequent stuttering or lengthy shader-compilation loading screens in many titles over the past few years. Microsoft unveiled a potential solution to the problem ...