Microsoft is making Windows 10 friendlier to gaming developers like Valve and Steam, after its Windows 8 "catastrophe" left the gaming world in the lurch. The Redmond company has announced a new ...

Microsoft's DirectX API has been a core part of gaming for decades, and Microsoft is preparing to upgrade this platform for the AI era. The new DirectX will have AI upscaling at the core, giving ...

Direct X 12, the next graphics API for Windows devices, will not require a new GPU card for its basic functions to work on PC, Microsoft has said. However, in a statement issued to the press following ...

Max out your GPU's matrix hardware without paying fealty to Nvidia.

The Khronos Group today launched Vulkan 1.1, the first big revision of its vendor-neutral, cross-platform GPU API. The new revision standardizes a handful of features that were previously offered as ...

Intel has officially dropped native DirectX 9 hardware support for its integrated Xe GPUs on its 12th Gen Core "Alder Lake" CPUs, as well as its upcoming Arc A-series desktop GPUs. In its place, Intel ...

Recently, you may have noticed an ever-present flow of stories surrounding OpenGL and OpenGL ES successor Vulkan, a new low-level API from non-profit consortium the Kronos Group. Most notably, we ...

Alex St. John, best known as the creator of Microsoft's DirectX, is now founder and CEO of game software publisher WildTangent Inc., which is perhaps not-so-coincidently based in Redmond, Wash. St.

One of the sticking points hampering adoption of Intel's Arc GPUs has been its performance in older titles, particularly those using much older versions of the DirectX API. You could argue that it ...

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Back in February of 2013, AMD announced that it was working on a new graphics API called Mantle, and that this was going to be an alternative to Microsoft's dominant DirectX API, and also the OpenGL ...

AMD is finally discontinuing support for the Mantle API. Starting with version 19.5.1, Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition drivers will no longer support AMD's rendering API, finally putting an end ...