Microsoft wants to make it easier for developers to support new DirectX graphical features as they release. To that end, the company revealed the DirectX 12 Agility SDK today. This toolkit enables ...

Microsoft announced the DirectX 12 Ultimate API last year which would enable games to use several modern DirectX 12 graphics features like DirectX Raytracing (DXR), Variable Rate Shading (VRS), Mesh ...

The DirectX software development kit Microsoft issued in 2002 contains a critical vulnerability, a Polish researcher claimed as he released attack code that can hijack Windows PCs by tempting Internet ...

Upon hearing of the recent Doom3 GPL release, I eagerly went to the Github page, and read about the necessary components for compiling the source. I installed Visual C++ 2010, and I downloaded the ...

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TL;DR: Real-time ray tracing is now standard in AAA games, with Path Tracing emerging as the next visual breakthrough, enabled by technologies like DLSS, Neural Rendering, and DirectX Raytracing 1.2.

This download provides the DirectX end-user multi-languaged redistributable that developers can include with their product. The redistributable license agreement covers the terms under which ...

The following solutions will help you fix the Unsupported DirectX version, No supported DirectX version found error while launching a game. Before proceeding, we ...

I'm teaching myself DirectX 9.0, and right now I'm trying to figure out how to use it to multiply all the vectors* in a buffer by a rotation matrix with a single function call. I cannot find a ...