This interface was to be provided by OpenGL and DirectX. GPUs back then were rather simple devices compared to now. In the end, the API only really needed to allow the developer to render textured ...

Microsoft's Direct3D API has come a long way since the early days of DirectX, with all the leading graphics cards now supporting the latest version, and the majority of new 3D accelerated games ...

Here’s how it works. We've already spoken about the possibility of Microsoft changing their DirectX API to be more like AMD's new Mantle API - bringing developers more access to the actual ...

Amid growing interest in "low-level" APIs, such as AMD's Mantle and Microsoft's forthcoming Direct3D 12 specification, Khronos is working on its own vendor-neutral, cross-platform API to give ...

Eventually, Microsoft realised the potential and through successive enhancements to the DirectX API began to provide an alternative to OpenGL that would work on any 3D accelerated video card with ...

DirectX 12 is the latest graphics API that powers Windows 11, but many of the best PC games still either run on DirectX 11 or include an option to switch. Which should you choose? Although most ...

Following Mantle API, DirectX and OpenGL will start offering low-level access to provide more efficient ways of programming graphic grads. This will help to reduce the CPU overhead in Direct3D and ...

the Khronos Group has started development of a software library to make development of programs using its OpenCL computation API easier. Similar libraries already exist for OpenGL and Direct3D ...

As expected, Microsoft has announced that the final version of its supercharged DirectX 12 graphics API will ship with Windows 10 in 2015. The story behind the story: Windows 8’s lackluster ...

So much hinges on the potential of DirectX 12. Here we analyse how gamers and developers can benefit from it. If all goes to plan, Microsoft's next-gen API will usher in a new standard for visuals ...

The API's first update appeared in May 2020, adding a group features under the title of DXR Tier 1.1. Unlike most DirectX updates, these additions don't require new hardware, just updated drivers.

Microsoft recently released Version 8 of its DirectX API (application-programming interface), which is available for downloading at www.microsoft.com/directx ...