diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index bd4d183..097f5ca 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -121,7 +121,8 @@ jobs:
 
       # Named for the platform-arch alone so the package job can download
       # artifacts straight into dist/<platform-arch>/ without merging. Uploads
-      # the whole directory so win32 carries its d3dcompiler_47.dll along.
+      # the whole directory so win32 carries its d3dcompiler_47.dll and
+      # dxcompiler.dll along.
       - name: Upload Artifact ⬆️
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
         with:
diff --git a/build/build.js b/build/build.js
index 6211ca2..4a6de1a 100644
--- a/build/build.js
+++ b/build/build.js
@@ -65,6 +65,13 @@ async function createProject() {
       // p1689 deps from 14 on) and the generate step fails. dawn.node doesn't
       // use the C++20 module interface, so seed the check as off.
       ...addElemIf(isLinux, '-DDAWN_SUPPORTS_CXX_MODULES=OFF'),
+      // without built DXC, dawn forces d3d12 onto FXC, which was measured ~45x
+      // slower than DXC on a compute rasterizer and can hang the device
+      // (crbug.com/566251711). with it, dawn prefers DXC wherever the adapter
+      // supports shader model 6.0+. copyResult ships dxcompiler.dll alongside.
+      ...addElemIf(isWin, '-DDAWN_USE_BUILT_DXC=ON'),
+      // dawn otherwise keeps DXC's asserts in release builds, where they trap.
+      ...addElemIf(isWin, '-DDAWN_DXC_ENABLE_ASSERTS_IN_NDEBUG=OFF'),
       `-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${kConfig}`,
       '-DCMAKE_CXX_VISIBILITY_PRESET=hidden',
       '-DCMAKE_VISIBILITY_INLINES_HIDDEN=1',
@@ -80,6 +87,15 @@ async function copyResult(filepath, target) {
   const dstFilename = path.join('dist', target, 'dawn.node');
   fs.mkdirSync(path.dirname(dstFilename), {recursive: true});
   fs.copyFileSync(srcFilename, dstFilename);
+  if (isWin) {
+    // dawn loads dxcompiler.dll from beside dawn.node at runtime, so ship it
+    // there along with DXC's license notices.
+    const dxcPath = path.join(kDawnPath, 'third_party', 'directx-shader-compiler', 'src');
+    fs.copyFileSync(path.join(filepath, kConfig, 'dxcompiler.dll'), path.join('dist', target, 'dxcompiler.dll'));
+    for (const notice of ['LICENSE.TXT', 'ThirdPartyNotices.txt']) {
+      fs.copyFileSync(path.join(dxcPath, notice), path.join('dist', target, `dxcompiler-${notice}`));
+    }
+  }
   return dstFilename;
 }
 
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 2b2a5bc..6e89176 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ export const isMac = process.platform === 'darwin';
 const __dirname = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
 const arch = isMac ? 'universal' : process.arch;
 // One directory per platform-arch so each build can sit next to its own
-// runtime deps (win32 needs its matching d3dcompiler_47.dll beside it).
+// runtime deps (win32 needs its matching d3dcompiler_47.dll and
+// dxcompiler.dll beside it).
 const dawnNodePath = join(__dirname, 'dist', `${process.platform}-${arch}`, 'dawn.node');
 const { create, globals } = require(dawnNodePath);