Since it launched in 2016, Vulkan has been positioned as a DirectX killer. It’s been a slow start, but the open software interface has gained a lot of momentum over the past six years, showing up in ...

Microsoft has quietly released its latest DirectX 12 Agility SDK (version 1.619 alongside the 1.719-preview), and while the patch notes are dense with developer jargon, the implications for PC gamers ...

Microsoft has this week rolled out Auto HDR support for a selection of PC games supporting both DirectX 11 and DirectX 12. Back in November 2020, Microsoft’s Xbox Series X and S consoles launched with ...

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DirectX 12 Ultimate is Microsoft's new programming interface - and it's being built with an aligned feature set between Xbox Series X and the next generation of PC games in mind. When the Xbox Series ...

Unless you've been living under a rock for quite a while, you know that 2020 is going to be a big year for gaming. AMD is set to launch its second-generation Navi-based RDNA 2 graphics cards, and it's ...

Although ray tracing can add visual realism to top-tier games, it can also maul the performance of otherwise top-tier PCs. It’s been a hurdle for years now, but we’re now one step closer to overcoming ...

Something to look forward to: Imagination Technologies is outlining a return to the PC graphics space, previewing a roadmap built around bringing its PowerVR architecture to desktop, workstation, and ...

The use of HDR in video games originally kicked off in the middle of the previous console generation. At the time, new televisions were being sold that were capable of displaying more colors in a ...

Kojima Productions built Death Stranding specifically for 60FPS, but had to dial things back on PS4. The PC version is the way the game was meant to be played. In a recent interview with Digital ...

Cyberpunk 2077 is one of the best looking games of 2020 by far, and when it has all of its graphical bells and whistles enabled (thanks, NVIDIA) it truly looks out of this world. Well, all of those ...