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 ...
Despite the work it entails, the creators of the multiplatform development software Unity think it's "only logical" to adopt DirectX 12, Unity's Xbox Wizard Tomas Jakubauskas wrote on the company's ...
During the actual reveal, Microsoft talked a lot about how the CPU overhead is a major problem and how the performance of GPUs is going constantly uphill while the performance of CPUs is not ...
Microsoft Corp. on Thursday unveiled DirectX 12, the latest incarnation of one of the world’s most popular application programming interfaces. The new API can not only greatly improve rendering ...
In the late summer of 2014, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 would be rolled out to PC users around the world in the following year. At the same time, it also revealed that the new operating system ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
VKD3D-Proton 2.8, known as Vulkan Direct3D for Proton version 2.8, was released today & assisted Linux Steam Deck users. The new implementation adds Direct3D 12 on Vulkan for Proton on Linux, which ...
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 ...
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 ...