DirectX 12 introduces the next version of Direct3D—the 3D graphics API at the heart of DirectX. Direct3D 12 is faster and more efficient than any previous version. Direct3D 12 enables richer scenes, ...

In addition to Nvidia's new Maxwell GPU having top-of-the-line performance and power efficiency, it has another feature that will probably make a lot more difference in the real world: It's the first ...

Valve and their open source contractors sure are a busy bunch. VKD3D-Proton, which translates Direct3D 12 to Vulkan version 2.8 is out now. An exciting sounding improvement for lowering the CPU ...

Translating Direct3D 12 to Vulkan for use with Wine makes a huge step forwards, as the Wine team have announced the release today of vkd3d 1.2. As a refresher, this is another project like DXVK which ...

Right now, our current Direct3D driver has a couple of limitations: 1 - It is Direct3D 9 only, and requires the Cg toolkit in order to work. 2 - It only works with the RGUI menu driver. There does ...

Today Microsoft announced that DirectX 12 is officially headed to all of its platforms for futuristic gaming finesse. Both NVIDIA and AMD are pushing their claim for the collaboration gold on this ...

The Wine authors released the Wine 4.0 release, the latest major stable released of their open source and free compatibility layer designed to allow Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, and Solaris users to install ...

At its Siggraph 2014 booth, Intel is showing off one of the first public demos of DirectX 12 and Direct3D 12 -- and the improvement over older graphics APIs, such as DirectX 11, is really quite ...

Microsoft has detailed the new Direct3D Feature level 12.2 in a detailed blog post along with some FAQs. In Microsoft Direct X, the Direct3D is an API that is used to render three-dimensional graphics ...

Direct3D, the real-time 3D rendering API for DirectX, is an integral part of how games are built and run. This is ever-evolving, and as you may know, older games run on older versions of DirectX – and ...

The team behind Wine, the Windows compatibility layer for other operating systems, has announced the launch of Wine 3.0 - the first version to support both Direct3D versions 10 and 11 and with Android ...