Direct3D constitutes one of the emerging APIs from Microsoft Corporation, for providing new software features to developers, so that new and existing features of the PC can be exploited much better ...

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At its Siggraph 2014 booth, Intel is showing off one of the first public demos of DirectX 12 and Direct3D 12 -- and the improvement over older graphics APIs, such as DirectX 11, is really quite ...

In a scary twist that reinforces Valve's distaste of Windows 8, it turns out that the Source engine -- the 3D engine that powers Half Life 2, Left 4 Dead, and Dota 2 -- runs faster on Ubuntu 12.04 and ...

Microsoft is bringing some of its Xbox console technology to Windows PCs with the introduction of DirectX Dump Files. When a ...

REDMOND, Wash. Jan. 22, 2003 Microsoft Corp. today announced broadened availability of the Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 application programming interface (API). The latest version of the Microsoft Windows® ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. While first-person shooters of yore were arcade-style games that put ...

What is now the foundation of most PC games began almost 30 years ago as a desperate act of self-defence. A look at technology, triumphs and failures. What is now the foundation for most PC games ...

First person shooter godfather John Carmack has revealed that he now prefers DirectX to OpenGL, saying that 'inertia' is the main reason why id Software has stuck by the cross-platform 3D graphics API ...