One of the latest announcements from Fortnite developer Epic Games has confirmed that users with graphics cards that don’t have DirectX 11 will no longer be supported once the hit game launches into ...

The latest flavor of the API suite that enables 3D animation and other multimedia effects remains exclusive to Windows 8 as Microsoft has no plans to port it over to Windows 7. Windows 8 will have ...

Microsoft has long said, and we have reminded users, that DirectX 11 is not just a Windows 7 technology. The company promised that DirectX 11 will be availalbe for ...

Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin is set to hit the next generation of consoles on April 7, but PC players are set to get the DirectX 11 version of the game first this coming Wednesday. Today, ...

DirectX 12 vs DirectX 11 – Why does it matter? Windows 10 has arrived and, along with integrated Cortana, Xbox One game streaming and a fancy new web browser, one of its key features is DirectX 12, ...

So quick question, all the benchmarks I read and all the games I have run either DX9 or DX11. What ever happened to DX10 and DX10.1? Is there a reason those technologies were never really explored?

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Microsoft's upcoming DirectX 11.2 update, first shown off at the company's Build conference last ...

When a new OpenGL specification has been released, its merely the standardization of OpenGL extensions that have been around for a long time. Implicitly stating OpenGL is always behind Direct3D in ...

Two applications that never seem to have quite enough processing power are high-end multimedia editing, and gaming. In Windows, one of the key components of graphics processing in gaming is DirectX ...

Dark and Darker, the debut game from developer IRONMACE, is one of many PC games that uses the graphics software DirectX. Naturally, Microsoft tends to release new versions of DirectX on a ...

One of the advantages of Fortnite is the minimal amount of computer power needed to play the game. As Fortnite season 10 approaches, developer Epic Games gave a heads-up that players will need to have ...

[font="Arial, sans-serif"][size="2"] I have found each of these to be quite useful in the course of developing some of the sample applications for our upcoming book: Practical Rendering and ...