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What is Advanced Shader Delivery?

Advanced Shader delivery is a feature that aims to eliminate long shader pre-compilation and shader compilation-related stuttering in games by distributing precompiled shaders when downloading a game — those shaders are downloaded just like other parts of the game. In other words, faster initial load times and smoother performance when first playing a game after installation, a game update, or a driver update. The idea is that developers will programmatically capture and generate a new type of asset from pipeline state object inputs, called a State Object Database (SODB.) An SODB is a SQLite3

We tested Advanced Shader Delivery on the RX 9070 XT in six games — up to 95% improvement in load times and 33 percent faster 1% Low FPS
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Enthusiast hacks Valve’s AMD-first gaming OS to run on Intel hardware — SteamOS boots on Intel Arc B580 desktop GPU, but it takes a Radeon card, installer workaround, and Resizable BAR fix

… These images did not boot into the older live desktop-style installer with install, update, and recovery options. Instead, they started installing directly to the drive, then failed when the system tried to connect to the network and pull its first update. …

Jun 16, 2026 · Etiido Uko
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AMD denies researcher a $10,000 bug bounty after fixing critical auto-updater vulnerability — security flaw took 124 days to patch

… To its credit, AMD seemingly reengineered the download code in the autoupdater altogether, and Paul verified that the new version does indeed download drivers securely, though he remarks that the software only checks the validity of the downloaded file using the ancient CRC32 hash that isn't consid… …

Jun 12, 2026 · Bruno Ferreira
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