GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. So much hinges on the potential of DirectX 12. Here we analyse how ...

The recently released Shader Model 6.9 brings Microsoft's official take on Shader Execution Reordering (SER) out of preview. Nvidia and a few game developers have already ...

DirectX 12 may soon appear in a big-budget game with next month’s launch of Hitman. To take advantage of DirectX 12, players will need to be running Windows 10—Microsoft has no plans to bring the tech ...

Up until now, no DirectX 12 games have been released. One small step for Stardock, and a huge leap for API. Until now, however, no games had been built on DirectX 12. Stardock changed that by ...

Now that there are a handful of DirectX 12 titles in-market, we can start to measure how AMD and Nvidia measure up in the new API. The results to-date are intriguing, and the trends don't always point ...

DirectX 12 is still very much in it's infancy, but we're likely to start seeing the benefits of the new graphics technology by the end of the year, according to Microsoft's games head honcho Phil ...

Hey, Microsoft! Where's all that graphical excellence you promised us with Windows Vista and DirectX 10? That's probably what a lot of us are wondering after we eagerly snapped up copies of Windows ...

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 ...

Microsoft demonstrates DirectX 12 doubling the framerate of games at Build 2014 which will help push the Xbox One deeper into next generation gaming and will enhance the user experience. This week at ...