DirectX 11 hasn't gone anywhere, and don't expect to see DirectX 13 any time soon, either. Or ever, perhaps. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

DirectX12 shipped in 2015 with a simple goal: give developers more control so games run faster, look better, and scale across Windows PC and console. Over the last decade, DirectX 12 delivered on that ...

The Black Ops 7 DirectX error surfaced soon after the game's launch worldwide, and it's undoubtedly a frustrating one. This issue is believed to be a client-side ...

The engineers on Microsoft's DirectX team are always busy bees, constantly working on one improvement or another. Today, the team announced that it's taking initial steps to get rid of a perennial ...

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.

TL;DR: At GDC 2025, Microsoft announced DirectX Raytracing (DXR) 1.2, promising significant performance boosts in ray-traced games through technologies like opacity micromaps and shader execution ...

In non-technical terms, both DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 work as translators that help your computer talk to games. Part of it includes helping your GPU render visuals and scenes in the game. DirectX 11 ...

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, the sequel to Final Fantasy VII Remake, has been out for nearly a year, and countless players have already gone through everything the game has to offer. However, that’s the ...

Robbie has been an avid gamer for well over 20 years. During that time, he's watched countless franchises rise and fall. He's a big RPG fan but dabbles in a little bit of everything. Writing about ...

CES 2025 brought us plenty of GPU tech to be excited about, much of it from NVIDIA. The GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs feature advanced AI tricks, with technologies such as DLSS 4 and neural rendering.

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 ...