Shader stutter begone! – Microsoft brings Advanced Shader Delivery to all Xbox PC app users
Advanced Shader Delivery is now available to all Xbox PC App users
Microsoft has officially expanded Advanced Shader Delivery support to all Xbox PC app users. Starting today, the feature is available for supported games on systems with AMD RDNA-based graphics cards and AMD’s Software 26.6.1 (or newer) GPU drivers. This includes AMD RDNA, RDNA 2, RDNA 3, RDNA 3.5, and RDNA 4 GPUs.
Advanced Shader Delivery solves two problems. By providing pre-compiled shaders to PC gamers, shader compilation stutter in games can be avoided. Additionally, gamers can skip the shader pre-compilation step, making initial game load times much faster.
In Forza Horizon 6, Microsoft claims the initial load time is 95% faster on a Radeon RX 9060 GPU when precompiled shaders are used. That’s a huge time saving for PC gamers. That’s a load time reduction from 1.5 minutes to just four seconds.
The latest update to Microsoft Advanced Shader Delivery now supports even more AMD Gaming Devices.
⚡️Now enabled on AMD RDNA™ Powered Graphics with AMD Software 26.6.1
⚡️Reduce shader stutter & load times by up to 95%Learn more: https://t.co/bUchIFRzYY https://t.co/BhztwSCZLG
— AMD Radeon (@AMDRadeon) June 12, 2026
Supported Games
Microsoft has released a list of supported games for Advanced Shader Delivery. This list includes games from a broad range of game publishers and developers, suggesting that a large number of developers are interested in Microsoft’s technology.
- Ark Survival Ascended
- Avowed
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Control
- Dead Island 2
- Deep Rock Galactic
- Farming Simulator 25
- Forspoken
- Final Fantasy XVI
- Forza Horizon 5
- Forza Motorsport
- Gears of War: Reloaded
- Gears Tactics
- Grounded 2
- Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced
- Lies of P
- Metro Exodus
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
- Monster Hunter Rise
- Persona 3 Reload
- Resident Evil 2 (2019)
- Resident Evil 3
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
- Sea of Thieves
- Sniper Elite: Resistance
- South of Midnight
- The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Remaster
- Ninja Gaiden 4
- The Callisto Protocol
- The Outer Worlds 2
- Silent Hill f
- Keeper
In time, we expect Advanced Shader Delivery to be supported across a broader range of devices. This should include PCs with Intel and Nvidia-based GPU hardware. For now, this tech is exclusive to AMD RDNA-based GPUs, but that shouldn’t be the case for long.
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