Windows and Xbox games will receive a significant graphics and performance boost with Microsoft's new DirectX 12, a set of application programming interfaces and tools used in PC games.

Microsoft has taken the covers off its latest gaming/graphics programming interface, known as DirectX 12, that will be supported across Windows, Windows Phone and the Xbox One OS by next year.

In this way, the game will only be compatible with PCs that use Windows 10, or Windows 7 with the latest updates that added DirectX 12 support.

Microsoft preps Windows 10 for a new paradigm of 3D graphics with its new API for GPU-based 3D rendering.

LaMothe, mathematician and computer scientist and author of the immensely well-received Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus, has reprised that technohit with the same thing for 3D simulation.