Microsoft has shipped a set of Direct3D 12 upgrades that target one of the most persistent bottlenecks in PC gaming, the cost ...

A new DirectX update brings Shader Execution Reordering (SER) out of preview, and it's boosting ray-traced framerates by up to 90% in early tests.

As for the rest of the new bits in the Shader Model/D3D12 update, they're all complex, specific, and mostly about improving coding flexibility and trimming milliseconds off how everything is all ...

Microsoft has announced DirectX 12 Shader Model 6.9 along with a set of Direct3D 12 improvements that target both shader authoring and the runtime plumbing behind modern engines.

The latest DirectX release standardizes advanced rendering features key to path-tracing performance and the use of AI in games.

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For as long as PC gaming has existed, it has been more or less synonymous with Windows. Due to its chokehold on the market, nearly every title eventually makes its way to Microsoft's operating system ...

Nvidia and MediaTek’s ambitious plan to shake up the gaming laptop market with a powerful yet efficient Arm-based processor has hit a significant delay. According to new reports, the chip’s release is ...

Microsoft’s annual developer conference, Build 2025, has given a strong indication of how artificial intelligence (AI) is being fully integrated into the Windows operating system. Windows developers ...

Since 1996 Microsoft’s DirectX API has been a universal presence on gaming PCs, allowing games to access low-level hardware features directly. With the rise of Ray Tracing, this has become more ...

Hamza is a certified Technical Support Engineer. When launching Dota 2, you might encounter the error message: “CRenderDeviceMgrDx11::Init(): Failed to create Dx11 ...

This would imply that in some cases the call made by AC Shadows is not interpreted correctly by DirectX API on your machine. Unfortunately, there is nothing that can be done about it, and we can only ...