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Ahead of its DirectX developer day, Nvidia and Microsoft have announced the next era of graphics features for Xbox and PC gamers, and it’s called the DirectX 12 Ultimate game stack. Previously, ...

What is now the foundation of most PC games began almost 30 years ago as a desperate act of self-defence. A look at ...

And the day has finally come. Despite the fact that AMD's Roy Taylor told us a year ago that there is no such thing as DirectX 12, Microsoft has announced its next generation API. DirectX 12 is in ...

If you’re a Windows 7 gamer refusing to upgrade to Windows 10, Microsoft has some exciting DirectX 12 news for you. The company announced that DirectX 12 is finally making the jump from Windows 10 to ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s new DirectX 12 will improve game play and extend mobile battery life on Windows Phones, Qualcomm said. The visual quality of games on mobile devices, PCs and the Xbox gaming console will ...

A new Fortnite update is set to bring Microsoft DirectX 12 support to the game, making way for better performance on higher end PCs. The PC version of Red Dead Redemption 2 offers two different ...

The version of DirectX introduced in Windows 10 in 2015. A major change was adding very low-level programming interfaces (APIs) so that developers can obtain more parallel operations. Support for ...

For those unfamiliar, DirectX is an API available on Windows and Xbox consoles that handles graphics rendering, similar to Apple’s Metal API. DirectX 12, the latest version available, brings a lot of ...

Gamers who remain on Windows 7 can now play World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth with the added boost of DirectX 12. Microsoft announced that Blizzard would be the first game developer to offer ...