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Intel's Tom Peterson and Ryan Shrout talk about DX11 support

Intel admits tuning DX11 support is going to be a 'labor of love for like forever'

By Alan Dexter published

News If you've got your heart set on playing older games then Intel's new GPUs may not be the perfect option.

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Microsoft Store redesign is coming

Windows 11's best gaming feature now being enabled in Windows 10

By Dave James published

News Microsoft confirms DirectStorage is compatible with Windows 10 so developers "can reach as many gamers as possible."

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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.

News
Valheim in-game screenshot of a steep bridge and boats in the water

Here's why you should try out Vulkan in Valheim

By Jacob Ridley published

Useful tweak The latest patch introduces the Vulkan API to our favourite Viking survival game.

Useful tweak
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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...

News
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.

Origin story
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What Microsoft's DirectX Raytracing means for gaming

By Jarred Walton published

Holy Grail Physically based graphics rendering could simplify and improve the way games look.

Holy Grail
Amilia St. John

DirectX co-creator's daughter slams his "toxic waste trash fire" approach to development

By Andy Chalk published

NEWS Amilia St. John pulled no punches in a response to her father's controversial column about "crunch".

NEWS
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Dark Souls 2 modded: Durante's GeDoSaTo enables downsampling, texture modding

By Peter "Durante" Thoman published

Dark Souls
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Microsoft reveals DirectX 12, a "thinner" graphics API with 50% better CPU utilization

By Emanuel Maiberg published

DirectX 12 is a “thinner,” lower level API, with less abstraction between software and hardware.

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