Windows 11 auto-updates DirectX via Windows Update—you're likely already on the latest version. To force an update, open Windows Update in the Windows 11 Settings app and click "Check for Updates." ...

A whimsical wordsmith at Game Rant, crafting pixelated odysseys from a lifelong love for gaming and a diet of 1UP mushrooms. The First Descendant is a new third-person shooter that has taken the world ...

Microsoft rolls out Shader Model 6.10 and AgilitySDK 1.720, adding AI-ready APIs and improved GPU performance to DirectX 12.

The UE5 implementation is reportedly 'in progress' and could help developers reduce shader stutter and long load times in ...

Microsoft has announced that neural rendering capabilities are coming to DirectX soon. Cooperative vector support, as it’s called, will lead to “cross-platform enablement of neural rendering ...

The most serious of the three warnings involves DirectX, the set of multimedia programming instructions used by most PC games, as well as other entertainment-oriented applications and peripherals, ...

Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 will ship with the latest version of its dedicated graphics API, DirectX 12. The software is now available for developers to test by signing up to the Windows ...

In a scary twist that reinforces Valve's distaste of Windows 8, it turns out that the Source engine -- the 3D engine that powers Half Life 2, Left 4 Dead, and Dota 2 -- runs faster on Ubuntu 12.04 and ...

Valve has made Dota 2's Direct3D to OpenGL translation layer open source. This is the piece of code that allows Valve to take a standard DirectX Windows game that uses the Source engine (Dota 2, Team ...

Something to look forward to: Imagination Technologies is outlining a return to the PC graphics space, previewing a roadmap built around bringing its PowerVR architecture to desktop, workstation, and ...