Forget about Windows Vista's DirectX 10, Microsoft is delivering a preview of DirectX 10.1 associated with the first service pack for the operating system. The Direct3D 10.1 Tech Preview is an integer ...

This short article gives a brief overview of how a simple, yet typical, vertex buffer creation process differs between Direct3D 9 and Direct3D 10. The aim is to show some simple examples of how the ...

Much ado has been made about how Vista offers Microsoft's DirectX 10 API. But so far, the games just aren't ready yet. I was getting impatient, so I called up Nvidia, which debuted its first DirectX ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. SAN JOSE, Calif.–Windows Vista may be delayed, but that isn’t ...

We’ve been waiting for the first DirectX 10-capable game to appear, anything really. Windows Vista has been available for almost half a year, and we’ve been wasting our GeForce 8800 GTX’s precious GPU ...

Yesterday ExtremeTech posted the first part of an in-depth interview with two gentlemen from Microsoft dealing with DirectX 10. If you’re unfamiliar, DirectX is a Microsoft API (application ...

Gabe Newell, president of Valve Software, believes that Microsoft made a serious mistake releasing DirectX 10 for Vista only, excluding Windows XP. I have to agree with Newell. According to an online ...

After you've installed everything, open up Visual Studio and create a new Windows Application project. You can delete the default Form that gets added to your project; we won't be needing to customize ...

Like with the jump from DirectX 9 to DirectX 10, you’ll have to really concentrate hard to see what’s changed between the two versions. If you can even really ...

As of November 2008, Microsoft is delivering the first taste of DirectX 11 for Windows 7 for download. A release aimed at developers, The November 2008 DirectX Software Development Kit, brings to the ...

Company of Heroes was created as a DirectX 9 game with the plan to add DirectX10 support in the future; the game will likely not be as impressive as games entirely created with DirectX 10 in mind, ...