Hi, I've found a solution to enable  Directstorage on my Area-51m R2, I'm leaving the solution here if someone else needs it. The cause of Direct storage not being supported on my NVMe drives was the Inter Rapid Storage Technology storage controller, Directstorage requires the standard NVMe dcontroller.  By default ( in my case) my laptop had Raid=on even thought I wasn't using it. Having Raid=on  forces IRST controller and therefore Directstorage doesn't work. Here is how to fix it: 1-Device manager>storage controllers>uninstall IRST controller. (dunno if this is mandatory but it is what I did) 2-Reset to BIOS and configure SATA to AHCI. (this will mess with Windows boot and will crash) 3-Let Windows boot crash 2 times and on the third enter Windows Safe Mode. 4-Once Windows boots in safe mode, just restart the computer as booting into safe mode already fixes Windows boot. (to my understanding) 5-Start windows normally and having deactivated Raid/IRST will force NVMe standard controller and with this Directstorage is now working, even my 500GB NVMe drive is lsited as supported.   Hope this helps someone.
Hi, I just bought a 2TB NVMe SSD  and installed it on the spare M.2 slot of my laptop to enable Directstorage, but game bar list my drive as not NVMe supported, how can I enable it?   [IMAGE]   [IMAGE] Thanks
Area-51m R2, direct storage support issue