We finally have games taking full advantage of the speed of a solid state drive and, bam! Shader compilation. Games require a whole lot of custom code, in the form of shaders, in order to look as good ...

First-boot shader compiles still feel as painful as cassette-era loads. Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery claims up to 85% faster shader compiles by pre-distributing precompiled shaders. SODB/PSDB ...