The recently released Shader Model 6.9 brings Microsoft's official take on Shader Execution Reordering (SER) out of preview. Nvidia and a few game developers have already ...

Over the past few months, we’ve covered DirectX 12 and showed you the level of performance gains it can achieve. DirectX 12 promises to bring the same types of low-level APIs that allow game ...

CNBC ranks the 75 most valuable college athletic programs. The programs are worth a combined $51.22 billion, 13% more than the top 75 in last year's rankings. Earlier this month the University of Utah ...

Hardware Valve owns up to inaccurate Steam hardware survey findings, saying 'VRAM on some graphics cards was not reported correctly' Graphics Cards Resident Evil Requiem's path tracing is tough on ...

Hi everyone, I'm experiencing a problem with the Windows application 3D Cubes Unlimited. It seems the program does not recognize newer versions of DirectX - even though I have the latest DirectX ...

For more politics coverage and analysis, sign up for Here's the Deal, our weekly politics newsletter, here. Presidential budget proposals are usually seen as symbolic. But President Donald Trump is ...

TL;DR: Real-time ray tracing is now standard in AAA games, with Path Tracing emerging as the next visual breakthrough, enabled by technologies like DLSS, Neural Rendering, and DirectX Raytracing 1.2.

Microsoft has released Agility SDK 1.616, which includes support for Opacity Micromaps (OMM), a new feature in DirectX Raytracing that boosts performance. Back in March at the Game Developers ...

Restart your Windows PC. If you can’t find Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 listed in Programs and Features, try downloading the 32 and 64-bit versions of that package from this page. Then, open the ...

Although ray tracing can add visual realism to top-tier games, it can also maul the performance of otherwise top-tier PCs. It’s been a hurdle for years now, but we’re now one step closer to overcoming ...