DirectX 12 Agility SDK enables new graphics features without an OS update
Microsoft wants to make it easier for developers to support new DirectX graphical features as they release. To that end, the company revealed the...
Microsoft unveils DirectX 12 Ultimate with improved ray tracing
Microsoft is moving on to the next generation of its DirectX gaming APIs for Windows and Xbox. DirectX 12 Ultimate enables developers to unlock...
Microsoft widens its efforts to support DirectX 12 games on Windows 7
DirectX 12 works on Windows 7, but that wasn’t always the case. Microsoft originally only supported the newest graphics API on Windows 10 and...
Why Stardock wanted to show up early to the Vulkan graphics API party
Stardock updated its Ashes of the Singularity strategy game with support for the Vulkan graphics-rendering API in August, and that introduced some serious performance...
Microsoft: DirectX 12 has ‘the fastest adoption of any DirectX’ ever
Most developers are not hesitating to upgrade to Microsoft’s latest graphics programming interface. DirectX 12 is the latest entry in Microsoft’s bundle of APIs...
How Ashes of the Singularity enables massive planetary battles with huge sci-fi armies
Ashes of the Singularity looks like a technical tour de force. In this real-time strategy (RTS) game for the PC, you’ll be able to...
Ashes of the Singularity is like StarCraft on steroids
Ashes of the Singularity is a real-time strategy that uses all the brains in your computer’s processor and graphics chips to render as many as...
Microsoft shows a realistic crying human face using DirectX 12 graphics
Square Enix, Microsoft, and Nvidia collaborate to produce a believable crying human face.
Microsoft claims DirectX 12 graphics performance is up to 50% better than DirectX 11
DirectX 12 will also improve battery consumption on phones and tablets.
‘Xbox One will see improved performance’ with DirectX 12, according to Microsoft
DirectX 12 is coming in a preview form later this year. It will give developers more control over the rendering power of the Xbox One as well as PC gaming rigs.