Microsoft's new DirectX 12 will improve game play and extend mobile battery life on Windows Phones, Qualcomm said.

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.

Microsoft preps Windows 10 for a new paradigm of 3D graphics with its new API for GPU-based 3D rendering.

In this way, the game will only be compatible with PCs that use Windows 10, or Windows 7 with the latest updates that added DirectX 12 support.

Things are changing with the introduction today of a DirectX 12 technique that aims to bridge the gap between rasterization techniques used today and the full 3D effects of tomorrow. The new ...

LaMothe, mathematician and computer scientist and author of the immensely well-received Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus, has reprised that technohit with the same thing for 3D simulation.

Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) that handle tasks associated with multimedia, especially game programming, the Windows Direct X 12 API being the ...

The powerful new capabilities in feature level 12_2 represent exciting new possibilities for game and application developers. Microsoft Adds DirectX 12 Feature-level 12_2, and Turing, Ampere and ...