DirectX is the secret sauce that allows most of the best PC games to run. It solves a problem for developers by offering a standardized solution to communicate instructions to your graphics card, and ...

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 ...

DirectX 12 is the latest graphics API that powers Windows 11, but many of the best PC games still either run on DirectX 11 or include an option to switch. Which should you choose? Although most ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. We've seen Project Scorpio push games like Forza 6 to native 4K 60FPS at only 66% GPU power, but Forza is Xbox's cream of the crop. What about other games?

CrossOver 23 now lets Mac and Linux users play Windows games from EA, or which rely on DirectX 12, while its new geometry shader support allows games to play without graphics issues. Following its ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Microsoft has just unveiled DirectX 12 Ultimate-- a new version of its DirectX 12 standard which has radically improved features and capabilities that will ...

Apple has made a tiny bit of progress in the last year when it comes to getting games running on Macs—titles like Resident Evil Village and a recent No Man’s Sky port don’t exactly make the Mac a ...

Now that there are a handful of DirectX 12 titles in-market, we can start to measure how AMD and Nvidia measure up in the new API. The results to-date are intriguing, and the trends don't always point ...

Valve has made Dota 2's Direct3D to OpenGL translation layer open source. This is the piece of code that allows Valve to take a standard DirectX Windows game that uses the Source engine (Dota 2, Team ...

With the advent of digital games stores such as Steam, Origin, and GOG, we've seen a resurgence of older titles given new life through digital downloads. We all expect a game bought through one of ...