Adrian has been a tech enthusiast since the 90s with a particular passion for gaming that developed thanks to his first gaming outings on Pong, Zork and Space Invaders. In the years that followed he ...

The release of UL's 3DMark DX-R, aka DirectX Raytracing test (full, not hybrid), could not have been timed more perfectly. With the announcements of the AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series graphics cards fresh ...

DX11 versus DX12 versus Mantle: FIGHT! If you've followed this column or any other site focused on PC gaming, you've no doubt read about Futuremark's 3DMark, a benchmarking application that tests the ...

If your computer runs both an Intel 4th-gen Core processor and uses integrated graphics, you might find yourself with a bit of a headache the next time you upgrade your graphics driver. The company ...

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 ...

DirectX has been with us for 25 years, providing developers with the tools to make incredible games. The latest version, DX12 was released in 2015 but in the past couple of years, Microsoft have been ...

Nvidia shared details of what to expect before Microsoft’s official presentation at GDC 2020 in March, and it’s easy to see why: Even though Microsoft’s next-gen console is powered by AMD, DirectX 12 ...

I'm looking for a way to develop some small Direct X applications using Microsoft's Visual C# 2005 Express Beta IDE. I'm not very experienced with C#, .NET, or DirectX though. I have done some stuff ...

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Intel has now officially dropped native hardware support for DirectX 9, and this applies to both integrated Xe graphics on Alder Lake CPUs and discrete Arc Alchemist GPUs. This doesn’t mean that Intel ...

With the announcement of the XNA Game studio express, I figured I'd do some game development for my holiday project (am I the only one who does holiday projects? Yes? Damn..).<BR><BR>Going through a ...

Traditionally, the video card people keep their hardware a generation ahead of what's actually used by the software. For example, most current models already offer DirectX 10 scene-rendering tech, but ...