What DX12 can do for you (and your games) The drawback with DirectX before this latest release is that it still didn't provide "low-level" access to hardware components as seen with the consoles.

A Faster Dashboard and 4K Possibilities The boost that DirectX 12 gives the Xbox One is not strictly limited to performance bumps in-game.

And we’ve all been salivating over a way to measure real-world performance improvements from DirectX 11 to DirectX 12 since first learning about Microsoft’s updated API.

When DirectX 10 games hit the streets, the new API gave users marginal improvements in image quality alongside huge performance decreases.

Microsoft supports DirectX Ray Tracing in Windows 11/10. This will allow games to achieve a level of realism unachievable by traditional rasterization.

DirectX has been knocking around for years and allows developers to create games that can make the most of the components of your gaming PC.

To answer that, we talked to several game developers, graphics engineers, and computer scientists about what they really think of DirectX 12, and what they think will happen when it’s released ...

DirectX 11: A look at what's coming It doesn't seem all that long ago when Microsoft first started talking about what DirectX 10 would bring to game development.

Why DirectX 12 is a game-changer for PC enthusiasts From the archive: Digital Foundry's DX12 deep-dive, updated with fresh data and analysis from the newly launched Windows 10.

If you play PC games, you've probably heard about something called DirectX — it's hard to miss, because when you install a new game on a PC a dialogue box usually pops up that asks whether you'd ...

Bottom line, getting some simple DirectX 11 demos running on Linux is a long, long way off from getting games running on the platform.

Processors The latest and greatest games are more core-hungry than ever, so here are the cheapest 8-core CPUs you can drop into your gaming rig Processors The GPU-less version of Intel's best ...