After nearly five years of lingering on the same stable release, the next generation of DirectX is finally on its way. But a specter hung over Microsoft’s introduction of DirectX 12 at GDC on Thursday ...

2025 marks 10 years after the official launch of DirectX 12 for Windows 10. This came after a relatively frequent release cycle over the years, starting with one of the first ever DirectX showcase ...

Alongside the headlining hardware announcement(s) last night Nvidia announced the availability of GameWorks DX12 and discussed some of its features. Resource updates have been put together by Nvidia ...

Since it launched in 2016, Vulkan has been positioned as a DirectX killer. It’s been a slow start, but the open software interface has gained a lot of momentum over the past six years, showing up in ...

id Software is one of the best-known game developers in the world, having created smash hit games for many generations. With the latest Doom game being another big hit, and a graphical powerhouse, did ...

The Internet’s been abuzz over the promise of Windows 10’s underlying DirectX 12 gaming technology for months now. Drastically higher frame rates! Drastically lower power consumption! Drastically ...

PC synthetic gaming benchmark specialist Futuremark has introduced a new test with a focus upon Microsoft DirectX 12 performance assessment. The Time Spy DirectX 12 benchmark test DLC is the new test ...

id Software co-founder John Carmack built his popular game engines around the cross-platform OpenGL API. It therefore may be a surprise to learn that he considers Microsoft's DirectX to be a superior ...

Microsoft has no plans to produce future versions of its XNA development tool, a spokesman for the company confirmed with Polygon today. Earlier this morning, an email was sent to select employees and ...

I've been fighting the freaken infinite loop problem on my machine. I have a GeForce2 GTS-V card. I had always used the Software mode but in troubleshooting the problem I tried OpenGL and DirectX. In ...