With Shader Execution Reordering, some Intel and Nvidia GPUs deliver up to 90% greater FPS in a specific path-tracing ...

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 ...

Danny Spencer] has a brilliant graphical demo that, like all great demos, flexes a deep understanding of the underlying system: a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color. If you’re not ...

Now, with Vulkan on the horizon, Minecraft: Java Edition is finally stepping into a modern graphics era. For a title that continues to thrive years after launch, the Vulkan upgrade signals that even ...

Engineer Danny Spencer has unveiled a real-time 3D shader that calculates and moves the shadows of 3D-like objects in real time when light is shone on them on the Game Boy Color. As the object rotates ...

Nintendo 3DS Azahar has just announced support for caching shaders to disk. Azahar has to translate 3DS vertex shaders so your GPU can use them, slowing down gameplay. By caching compiled shaders, ...

Players need Minecraft Java edition and a mod like Optifine or Iris to run a shader pack. Download the shader pack from a trusted source and store the zip file in an accessible place. Launch Minecraft ...

Minecraft has always been a game about creativity, survival, and the absolute freedom of making whatever you want in the game. But let’s face one thing – the blocky graphics might not seem pleasing to ...

PC gaming is wonderful. You can customize games as much as you desire, run them at high framerates, and enjoy all sorts of other useful advantages. But one really annoying part of gaming on a PC in ...

Long-Term Support release, with features ranging from structured concurrency and compact object headers to ahead-of-time method profiling and JFR CPU-time profiling on Linux, is now generally ...

One of the biggest plagues to loading times these days has been compiling shaders. It seems to always be a significant slowdown when you’re rather excited for a new game and are just slowly watching ...

Copilot 3D will turn your 2D images into 3D models. The tool is freely available to anyone, though you do need a Microsoft account. Microsoft suggests using an image with a single subject, even ...