Windows 11 auto-updates DirectX via Windows Update—you're likely already on the latest version. To force an update, open Windows Update in the Windows 11 Settings app and click "Check for Updates." ...

DirectX, the Microsoft technology that allows PC games to talk to your gaming hardware, is going to build in support for the AI technologies that graphics vendors are already using.

PCWorld reports that Microsoft’s new DirectX ray tracing updates could deliver performance boosts of 40-90% through Shader Execution Reordering technology. Intel Arc B-Series GPUs showed remarkable 90 ...

The messaging marks a sharper, more public pivot than the firm has made in years. "We started adding hardware-based support ...

Ray tracing performance on PC just got a quiet but significant push forward. Microsoft has officially standardized Shader ...

A whimsical wordsmith at Game Rant, crafting pixelated odysseys from a lifelong love for gaming and a diet of 1UP mushrooms. The First Descendant is a new third-person shooter that has taken the world ...

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 ...

With every new release, there are bound to be errors and issues that cause problems in the game. One of the issues that players get when launching Remnant 2 is the ...

Ubisoft needs a win, and its hail mary game plan includes a big overhaul of Rainbow Six Siege. The shooter is entering its 10th year on the market with no sequel in sight, with the teams instead ...

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 ...