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 ...

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. Users can ...

Microsoft’s latest version of DirectX, the world’s most popular 3D graphics API, is a major change from earlier incarnations. It offers support for low-level programming that grants game developers ...

DirectX 12 Ultimate adds powerful new capabilities to DirectX 12, including DirectX Raytracing Tier 1.1, Mesh Shaders, Sampler Feedback, and Variable Rate Shading (VRS). These features help game ...

AMD today took the pole position in the DirectX 12 era with an roster of state-of-the-art DirectX 12 games and engines, each with tuning for the Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture at the heart of ...

Early last year, some developers were worried Microsoft planned to retire its DirectX-- the gaming/graphics programming interfaces that the company has baked into Windows for years. Given the company ...

DirectX 12 is the latest graphics API that powers Windows 11, but many of the best PC games still either run on DirectX 11 or include an option to switch. Which should you choose? Although most ...

Microsoft is making Windows 10 friendlier to gaming developers like Valve and Steam, after its Windows 8 "catastrophe" left the gaming world in the lurch. The Redmond company has announced a new ...

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 ...

Just how many CPU cores do you need for PC gaming? The conventional wisdom for the last few years has been four or even two cores—if you have Hyper-Threading. That convention got upended with DirectX ...