Microsoft’s new DirectX 12 will improve game play and extend mobile battery life on Windows Phones, Qualcomm said. The visual quality of games on mobile devices, PCs and the Xbox gaming console will ...

Since it launched in 2016, Vulkan has been positioned as a DirectX killer. It’s been a slow start, but the open software interface has gained a lot of momentum over the past six years, showing up in ...

Microsoft is moving on to the next generation of its DirectX gaming APIs for Windows and Xbox. DirectX 12 Ultimate enables developers to unlock all of the hardware features on PC and in the Xbox ...

Today, Microsoft announced DirectX 12 Ultimate, promising an alignment between PCs and the Xbox Series X. It promises features like DirectX Raytracing, Vraiable Rate Shading, and more. Today, ...

DirectX 12 Ultimate is Microsoft's new programming interface - and it's being built with an aligned feature set between Xbox Series X and the next generation of PC games in mind. When the Xbox Series ...

Microsoft has confirmed most of DirectX 12's improvements will be available on existing gaming hardware, but there's more to come at GDC. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in ...

With the arrival of Microsoft's new Copilot+ PC line-up powered by the new Arm-based Snapdragon X Elite chipset, a new era for portable Windows-based devices has begun. Even though we will see new ...

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 ...

St. John tapped Engstrom in 1994 to help make gaming in the upcoming Windows 95 operating system practical. At the time, developers preferred the low overhead and greater control DOS offered over ...