In a scary twist that reinforces Valve's distaste of Windows 8, it turns out that the Source engine -- the 3D engine that powers Half Life 2, Left 4 Dead, and Dota 2 -- runs faster on Ubuntu 12.04 and ...

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DirectX 12 is the latest graphics API that powers Windows 11, but many of the best PC games still either run on DirectX 11 or include an option to switch. Which should you choose? Although most ...

Most development effort in graphics drivers these days, whether you're talking about Nvidia, Intel, or AMD, is focused on new APIs like DirectX 12 or Vulkan, increasingly advanced upscaling ...

Graphics chip maker ATI Technologies has released HLSL2GLSL, an open source application designed to help programmers convert graphics code optimized for Windows’ DirectX 9 Application Programming ...

The organization behind the OpenGL graphics software released specifications Thursday for a major update designed to add some razzle-dazzle to computer games. Specifications for version 2.0 of OpenGL ...

Today at a pre Shanghai IDF conference call, Stephen L. Smith, Vice President, Director, Digital Enterprise Group Operations at Intel has confirmed that Larrabee, its multi-functional part, will be ...

AMD’s next-gen R7 and R9 series Radeon graphics cards may have gotten all the attention at the company’s GPU 2014 event this week, but in the long run, a somewhat boring new technical addition may end ...

Google announced today that it would enable WebGPU support in its Chrome browser by default starting in version 113, currently in beta. In development since 2017, WebGPU is a next-generation graphics ...

DirectX is the secret sauce that allows most of the best PC games to run. It solves a problem for developers by offering a standardized solution to communicate instructions to your graphics card, and ...

Nvidia rolled out its latest Game Ready drivers for GeForce graphics cards on Tuesday. We don’t normally cover the hot-and-heavy world of graphics drivers releases (just keep them updated, okay?), but ...