Direct storage can’t improve loading into menu, because MSFS is loading mainly the
base information (xml,json files) during startup and the long time it needs is to organize
all the packs. Maybe it improves loading into flight from menu, but i don’t think the
improvement will be worth many $ for storage optimization.
Other things like panning around texture loading stutter maybe can be improved.
I think Asosbo will not open the pandoras box of direct storage, because there are many
things that will stop direct storage from work, like wrong drivers, bios settings, …
I have updated to Win11 to make my PC direct storage compatible and found out some
default bios settings for the NVME slot will block it, because intel RST was active. Switching to
AHCI stops windows from booting. It need some steps to change a running system from
Intel RST drivers to MS AHCI drivers.