Microsoft has released a preview of the next step in DirectX Raytracing to its Windows Insider Program, meaning developers can start to play with new performance enhancing features to deliver a better ...

This section assumes that you have had some experience with using DirectX, at least with getting a Direct3D device loaded. (A device you initialized to interface to the underlying hardware.) You ...

REDMOND, Wash. Jan. 22, 2003 Microsoft Corp. today announced broadened availability of the Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 application programming interface (API). The latest version of the Microsoft Windows® ...

A bunch of new DX12 features have been unveiled by Microsoft's Jianye Lu, Program Manager of the Graphics Team, in a blog post published recently. The focus appears to be on improving the DirectX ...

The trusty vertex shader has served us well over the last 20 years, but the time has come to move on to something bigger and better. Mesh shaders apply the full power of generalized GPU compute to the ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Microsoft has released a preview of Shader Model 6.10 in the new AgilitySDK 1.720-preview build. The update brings several changes, including tweaks to ...

In a blog Microsoft is talking DX Raytracing Tier 1.1 and overall a previews a suite of new DirectX 12 features, including DirectX Raytracing tier 1.1, Mesh Shader, and Sampler Feedback. DirectX ...

Registers in pixel shaders are not full 32-bit floating point values. In fact, they are severely limited in their range. The minimum precision is 8 bits, which usually translates to an implementation ...

What is now the foundation of most PC games began almost 30 years ago as a desperate act of self-defence. A look at technology, triumphs and failures. What is now the foundation for most PC games ...

After DirectX 12 Ultimate was announced, we started adding new tests to 3DMark to show how games can benefit from these new features. Our latest addition is the 3DMark Mesh Shader feature test, a new ...