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 ...

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GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. So much hinges on the potential of DirectX 12. Here we analyse how ...

To hear Microsoft tell it, DirectX 12 is going to be a breakthrough technology when it comes out as a part of Windows 10. Microsoft has promised, and some early benchmarking has shown, that DirectX 12 ...

Graphics card manufacturer AMD is going to support EA Phenomic Studio's real-time strategy game Battleforge, Sega's sci-fi RTS Stormrise, and NHN Games' RPG Cloud 9 with DirectX 10.1, the latest ...

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 ...

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GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. So much hinges on the potential of DirectX 12. Here we analyse how ...