Microsoft wants to make it easier for developers to support new DirectX graphical features as they release. To that end, the company revealed the DirectX 12 Agility SDK today. This toolkit enables ...

Microsoft has released Agility SDK 1.616, which includes support for Opacity Micromaps (OMM), a new feature in DirectX Raytracing that boosts performance. The new Opacity Micromaps (OMM) feature has ...

Microsoft announced the DirectX 12 Ultimate API last year which would enable games to use several modern DirectX 12 graphics features like DirectX Raytracing (DXR), Variable Rate Shading (VRS), Mesh ...

Microsoft just made it easier for developers to get DX12 features and technologies into their games, for gamers to enjoy, much easier than ever before with the introduction of DirectX 12 Agility.

Hardware A fraction of the most popular PC games over the past year use hardware-level ray tracing, which is far fewer than I'd predict just 24 months ago Hardware The latest Steam beta lets you give ...

Why it matters: On Thursday, Microsoft's Agility SDK development team announced the preview release of Agility SDK version 1.7.10.0. The new version brings developers two new features, GPU upload ...