Poking around the fresh Windows 10 build last night, I found an interesting new feature that Joe Belfiore didn’t mentioned in his announcement post: DirectX 12 is already baked into the operating ...

In an early slide at his GDC presentation today, Microsoft Graphics Development Manager Anuj Gosalia presented a timeline for DirectX development dating back to 1995. On the 2014 line, the timeline ...

Microsoft and partners from Nvidia, AMD, Intel and Qualcomm showed off the next version of the DirectX gaming API, DirectX 12, at the 2014 Game Developers Conference today. According to Microsoft ...

After nearly five years of lingering on the same stable release, the next generation of DirectX is finally on its way. But a specter hung over Microsoft’s introduction of DirectX 12 at GDC on Thursday ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. 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 ...

If all goes to plan, Microsoft’s next-gen API will usher in a new standard for visuals and performance across a whole range of devices, from high-end PCs, to modest laptops, to even the Xbox One. But ...

DirectX 12 works on Windows 7, but that wasn’t always the case. Microsoft originally only supported the newest graphics API on Windows 10 and Windows 8. But the company expanded that to Windows 7 ...

Ever since Microsoft announced DirectX 12, gamers have clamored for hard facts on how the new API would impact gaming. Unfortunately, hard data on this topic has been difficult to come by -- until now ...

For those unfamiliar, DirectX is an API available on Windows and Xbox consoles that handles graphics rendering, similar to Apple’s Metal API. DirectX 12, the latest version available, brings a lot of ...

It's been over 18 months since we first visited the topic of DirectX 12 and what features and benefits it would bring to modern gaming. Much has happened since. Windows 10's launch and the debut of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. Mar 26, 2015, 09:00am EDT Mar 27, 2015, 12:27pm EDT This article ...

At Game Developers Conference, Microsoft detailed DirectX 12. Promising a "console-like API," the key feature of DirectX 12 is Direct3D 12, which Microsoft's Anuj Gosalia jokingly described as "more ...