Microsoft announced this week its DirectX Raytracing (DXR) 1.2 application programming interface, which introduces new features that significantly improve visual quality and rendering performance ...

It is also the requisite foundation to run DirectX R, which powers the next-gen lighting technology, ray tracing. Microsoft has already helped some studios port their DirectX 12 games to Windows 7.

Microsoft is advancing its DirectX API to support neural rendering, signaling a transformative shift in graphics rendering by ...

Microsoft has posted Security Advisory 971778 to warn its users that it is investigating public reports of a new vulnerability in Microsoft DirectX (versions 7.0 through 9.0) that hackers are ...

Microsoft announced the arrival of Direct X12 in early 2014 In its Game Developer Conference, Microsoft (MSFT) announced its DirectX 12 that will be built into Windows 10. DirectX 12 is the latest ...

Microsoft has announced DirectX Raytracing 1.2, a graphics technology that could drastically improve ray tracing performance in Windows PC games.

False alarm: Microsoft isn't backing away from DirectX, despite an email message the company sent to some of its Most Valuable Professionals to the contrary earlier this week. On January 30 ...

In fact, Microsoft has said so little that senior personnel at AMD believed that there would never be a DirectX 12. It's now clear that there will, in fact, be one.

Microsoft is adamant that compatibility shouldn't take a hit. A game written for DirectX 12 Ultimate will still run on other hardware -- you just won't get all the visual pizazz.

Microsoft unveiled the next iteration of their graphics API, DirectX 12, during a talk at this week’s Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco. One of the key enhancements highlighted in ...

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.

Standby for journalism. Microsoft have indicated that anybody interested in a thing named DirectX 12 ought to attend a GDC presentation on March 20, at 10am. Visit the provisional schedule on the ...