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Microsoft celebrates 10 years of DirectX 12: A decade of updates to the low-level graphics API but it's still not the master of all things rendering

By Nick Evanson Published

News DirectX 11 hasn't gone anywhere, and don't expect to see DirectX 13 any time soon, either. Or ever, perhaps.

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Alan Wake 2 character standing in a diner looking off screen
Mesh shaders explained: What are they, what's the big fuss, and why are they only in Alan Wake 2?

By Nick Evanson Published

Mesh shaders 101 Why it's taken so many years for mesh shaders to actually be used in a game.

Mesh shaders 101
Alan Wake 2's main protagonist up-close.
You can run Alan Wake 2 on a 10-series or older graphics card, but you definitely shouldn't

By Jacob Ridley Published

Did I stutter? I've stuck a GTX 1080 in our test bench and I just cannot get anywhere close to passable performance.

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Xbox Series X
New DirectX 12 preview could pave the way for PCs to become more like an Xbox or PS5

By Dave James Published

News Now the CPU and GPU can both access VRAM directly, does a gaming PC need traditional system memory anymore?

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Screenshot of Forza Horizon 5 showing two cars with smoking tyres
Every E3 2021 game with ray tracing

By Jacob Ridley Published

RT enabled These are the games built to push the latest graphics cards to the limit.

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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
Microsoft's plan to get cutting-edge DX12 features out to gamers faster

By Jacob Ridley Published

News The DirectX 12 Agility SDK will circumvent Windows updates for a swifter rollout of features such as Variable Rate Shading.

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Microsoft DirectStorage will work with PCIe 3.0 SSDs

By Alan Dexter Published

News You'll get a better experience with a PCIe 4.0 drive though.

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Microsoft Xbox Series X processor
Xbox architect on ray tracing: 'developers still want to use traditional rendering techniques without a performance penalty'

By Dave James Published

News The Xbox Series X still has dedicated ray tracing hardware anyways...

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Doom playing on Windows
How DirectX defined PC gaming... with help from a shotgun-toting Bill Gates

By Samuel Willetts Published

Origin story 25 years ago, Windows began to do what DOS didn’t and changed the face of videogame development.

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AMD confirms its next-gen graphics cards will fully support DirectX 12 Ultimate

By Paul Lilly Published

News Viable real-time ray tracing in games will no longer be the exclusive domain of Nvidia.

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