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 ...

DirectX 12 was designed from scratch to provide the infrastructure for these advanced applications. DirectX 12 will mirror many of the improvements AMD implemented in its own Mantle API.

Michael McWhertor is a journalist with more than 17 years of experience covering video games, technology, movies, TV, and entertainment. The next major version of Microsoft’s DirectX API will be ...

DirectX 9 revolutionized gaming with the introduction of Shader Model 2.0, enabling more realistic graphics. It brought major improvements to the Direct3D API, crucial for 3D rendering.

Speaking to bit-tech for a forthcoming Custom PC feature about the future of OpenGL in PC gaming, Carmack said 'I actually think that Direct3D is a rather better API today.' ...

With the introduction of Windows 10, Microsoft also expanded on their Direct3D API and as such Microsoft released the DX12 API. Make no mistake in essence the game is DirectX 11, it simply ...

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 ...

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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® ...