Xbox improves experience on ROG Xbox Ally: new games with ultra-fast loading thanks to Advanced Shader Delivery

Titles start up to 10 times faster on the official Xbox portable and consume less battery.

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Microsoft continues to refine the gaming experience on its official laptop, and this time it does so with a technical feature that will make a difference. It’s about Advanced Shader Delivery, a technology already available on the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X that preloads game shaders during download, allowing titles to start much faster and maintain more stable performance from the first play.

According to the Xbox team, this novelty allows some games to start up to 10 times faster, in addition to reducing energy consumption on the first run, also optimizing the use of the integrated GPU on the laptop. It’s an improvement that applies automatically and will expand to more titles with future system updates.

Games compatible with Advanced Shader Delivery on ROG Xbox Ally

The initial list of compatible games includes both recent releases and great successes from Xbox Game Studios and third parties. All of them can benefit from this technical optimization on ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X from today:

According to Microsoft, this technology is part of the commitment to improve the laptop experience on Windows devices and align the ROG Xbox Ally with future updates to Xbox Game Pass Premium and Cloud Gaming.

With Advanced Shader Delivery, we want every player to enjoy the best performance from the first moment, without waits or performance drops. It’s another step towards truly instant gaming on any Xbox device.

These optimizations come as part of the Xbox October update, which also introduces improvements to the PC app, renovated Game Hubs on console, and new features on Xbox Cloud Gaming.