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 ...

id Software is one of the best-known game developers in the world, having created smash hit games for many generations. With the latest Doom game being another big hit, and a graphical powerhouse, did ...

Alongside the headlining hardware announcement(s) last night Nvidia announced the availability of GameWorks DX12 and discussed some of its features. Resource updates have been put together by Nvidia ...

The Internet’s been abuzz over the promise of Windows 10’s underlying DirectX 12 gaming technology for months now. Drastically higher frame rates! Drastically lower power consumption! Drastically ...

id Software co-founder John Carmack built his popular game engines around the cross-platform OpenGL API. It therefore may be a surprise to learn that he considers Microsoft's DirectX to be a superior ...

Gaming and multimedia applications are some of the most satisfying programs you can get for your PC, but getting them to run properly isn’t always as easy as it could be. First, the PC architecture ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. With the release of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided's DirectX 12 patch, at least in a beta version, AMD has ...

Commercial Windows compatibility tool Parallels Desktop has announced the addition of DirectX 11 support on macOS systems, improving performance and compatibility with games and 3D rendering ...

I've been fighting the freaken infinite loop problem on my machine. I have a GeForce2 GTS-V card. I had always used the Software mode but in troubleshooting the problem I tried OpenGL and DirectX. In ...

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 ...