GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. So much hinges on the potential of DirectX 12. Here we analyse how ...

Up until now, no DirectX 12 games have been released. One small step for Stardock, and a huge leap for API. Until now, however, no games had been built on DirectX 12. Stardock changed that by ...

DirectX 12 may soon appear in a big-budget game with next month’s launch of Hitman. To take advantage of DirectX 12, players will need to be running Windows 10—Microsoft has no plans to bring the tech ...

Now that there are a handful of DirectX 12 titles in-market, we can start to measure how AMD and Nvidia measure up in the new API. The results to-date are intriguing, and the trends don't always point ...

We've seen Project Scorpio push games like Forza 6 to native 4K 60FPS at only 66% GPU power, but Forza is Xbox's cream of the crop. What about other games? Not surprisingly, Xbox One games that use ...

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 ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Many people are hoping that DirectX 12 will bring better performance in PC games no matter the ...

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 ...

Valve has made Dota 2's Direct3D to OpenGL translation layer open source. This is the piece of code that allows Valve to take a standard DirectX Windows game that uses the Source engine (Dota 2, Team ...

Microsoft demonstrates DirectX 12 doubling the framerate of games at Build 2014 which will help push the Xbox One deeper into next generation gaming and will enhance the user experience. This week at ...