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LaMothe, mathematician and computer scientist and author of the immensely well-received Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus, has reprised that technohit with the same thing for 3D simulation.

Games based on DirectX 12 will be out by the end of 2015. DirectX 12 will be on Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox, and hardware supporters include Nvidia, Qualcomm, Advanced Micro Devices and Intel.

Microsoft has taken the covers off its latest gaming/graphics programming interface, known as DirectX 12, that will be supported across Windows, Windows Phone and the Xbox One OS by next year.

The Redmond company has announced a new DirectX Windows application programming interface (API) that brings GPU-accelerated 'raytracing' to DirectX 12, its set of graphics APIs for developers that ...

Microsoft’s latest version of DirectX, the world’s most popular 3D graphics API, is a major change from earlier incarnations. It offers support for low-level programming that grants game ...

If DirectX 12 truly works with disparate PC hardware as well as DirectX 11 does, but offers even more efficiency and raw power, there’s no reason to think it won’t be just as widely adopted.

Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) that handle tasks associated with multimedia, especially game programming, the Windows Direct X 12 API being the ...