PCWorld reports Microsoft is embedding AI into DirectX with new tools called DirectX Linear Algebra and DirectX Compute Graph Compiler to revolutionize game rendering. Major chip makers AMD, Intel, ...

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PCWorld reports that Microsoft’s new DirectX ray tracing updates could deliver performance boosts of 40-90% through Shader Execution Reordering technology. Intel Arc B-Series GPUs showed remarkable 90 ...

In context: Shader Execution Reordering significantly reduces the performance cost of ray tracing and path tracing in games such as Alan Wake 2 and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on recent Nvidia ...

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Microsoft has quietly released its latest DirectX 12 Agility SDK (version 1.619 alongside the 1.719-preview), and while the patch notes are dense with developer jargon, the implications for PC gamers ...

Every modern game now has DirectX 11 and 12 options, and Ready or Not is no exception. if you are not very techy, this choice can be confusing. Sure, DirectX 12 is new and might have better ...

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Forward-looking: Microsoft first introduced DirectX alongside Windows 95 as an incentive to drive game developers to support the new GUI-based operating system. The company has never stopped improving ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

While starting a game or application on Windows 11/10, if you see an error message saying DirectX 12 is not supported on your system or DX12 is not supported on your ...