AMD's latest Windows driver is WHQL certified and adds support for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, and more.
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Microsoft has announced it has launched a preview version of DirectSR. This is a new API that's been made to standardize super-resolution (upscaling) support for all DirectX 12-based PC games.
Rare has pushed out a major update carrying backend changes to Sea of Thieves, upgrading the Xbox GDK and enabling DirectX 12. Performance improvements are expected across PC and consoles.
AMD has launched a new tool called Radeon GPU Detective. This devtool is designed to detect and track TDRs which cause the annoying timeout detection pop-up and black screen on Radeons.
Microsoft has revealed that hardware-based video acceleration is now available in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). This change brings several performance and efficiency gains to WSL.
Nvidia has released a brand-new Game Ready driver to prepare for the RTX 4090 and DLSS 3 in upcoming games. It also has DirectX 12 optimizations aimed at last generation RTX GPU owners.
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Intel has shared more gaming benchmarks for its Arc A750 graphics card. Unlike the measly five-game benchmark data it gave away last time, the company has now included 10 times more benchmarks.
Microsoft has released a new Windows 11 Release Preview Channel build 22000.776 under KB5014668. The new build brings several fixes and improvements including one that was causing OS upgrade to fail.
Microsoft has introduced today some new Auto HDR features which includes an Auto HDR scaling option, multi-GPU support, and more. The new features though are exclusive to Windows 11 only.
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Join us as we recap everything important that happened in the Microsoft-verse in the past few days including some significant Windows 11 builds, decent news for developers, and the death of a mascot.
Microsoft has detailed a new feature it has added in recent Windows 11 Dev Channel builds that offers reduced latency, Variable Refresh Rate, and Auto HDR for legacy games running on DX10 and DX11.
While experimental code is already being merged into Valve's Proton for Linux users to enjoy, VKD3D on Mac is wrought with numerous technical challenges and limitations that must be surmounted.
Microsoft has revealed a new Video Encode API for DirectX 12, allowing developers to take advantage of GPU acceleration to encode H264 and HEVC content. The feature is native in Windows 11 too.
Intel disabled DirectX 12 on its 4th Gen Core lineup dubbed Haswell via a graphics driver update. The company stated that this was done to mitigate a security bug that it found on these CPUs.
Microsoft has worked with the open-source community, Intel, AMD, and Nvidia to offer TensorFlow-DirectML, a project that allows accelerated training of machine learning models on DirectX 12 GPUs.
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AMD has released its latest Adrenalin display driver version 21.5.2. Alongside several bug fixes, the new driver brings support for Microsoft's new DirectX 12 Agility SDK and Days Gone PC version.
Microsoft has announced that it's working with Collabora to create mapping layers for OpenCL and OpenGL in DirectX 12, with the goal of supporting more productivity and creative apps.
Today, Microsoft announced DirectX 12 Ultimate, promising an alignment between PCs and the Xbox Series X. It promises features like DirectX Raytracing, Vraiable Rate Shading, and more.
A new ReShade update, namely version 4.5.0 is out, with a heap of changes. Most notably, it brings improvements to DirectX 12 and Vulkan performance, as well as GUI upgrades, and so much more.
AMD isn't wasting any time adding DirectX 12 support for Fortnite. The API is hitting the battle royale title with the upcoming 11.20 update, and those on the red team can now be fully prepared.
Epic Games has announced that DirectX 12 support is soon coming to Fortnite, heralding what could be performance improvements. The studio also teased new features, which could be ray tracing.
Blizzard's new World of Warcraft expansion, Shadowlands, could feature several new engine-level features like Nvidia's RTX and Microsoft's DirectX 12, to make for a next-gen experience.
Ahead of GDC, Microsoft has announced that its DirectX 12 API now supports Variable Rate Shading, which should provide gamers with improved performance without sacrificing visual fidelity.
AMD today released the Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.3.2 driver for its graphics card owners, bringing support for The Division 2, DirectX 12 Windows 7 games, and more.
Microsoft has revealed that the user mode Direct3D12 runtime has been ported to Windows 7, bringing some of the DirectX 12 performance improvements to those on the older operating system.
The DirectX 12 API has made some significant advances since it launched with Windows 10 in 2015. The Fall Creators Update added new features, including ways to make code debugging easier for devs.
The studio behind Star Citizen has revealed that they plan on using the Vulkan API going forward, effectively dropping support for DirectX 11, as well as previous intentions of using DirectX 12.
The production release of the slimmed down version of Turn 10's popular Forza Motorsport 6 has been released, including support for popular steering wheels with more on the way later this month.
Despite DirectX 12 supporting it, multi-GPU support has been tricky to implement. But Microsoft is making this a lot easier with an upcoming update, giving users and developers a lot to hope for.
In a first for the Forza franchise, Microsoft has released a version of the game for PCs. Forza Motorsport 6: Apex brings racing action straight to your Windows 10 PC, with 4K resolution supported.
Microsoft thinks HDR TVs and displays will be the next big thing instead of 4K. So the company will give developers new tools to target these displays in DirectX 12 on Xbox One and Windows 10.
Renowned Frankfurt-based company Crytek has made the latest version of its game development engine essentially royalty-free, and unveiled a new benchmarking tool for VR enthusiasts.
In a move that could shake up video card upgrades, Stardock is working on software that leverages DirectX 12 and its ability to pool AMD and NVIDIA GPUs in a single system to boost performance.
Microsoft has finally released the Windows 10 version of Gears of War: Ultimate Edition through the Windows Store as a Universal Windows Platform app months after the Xbox One release.
The first title to support DirectX 12 has released today on Steam Early Access. 'Ashes of the Singularity' is a new title from Stardock, which sees massive improvements thanks to DX12 technology.
Intel finally unveils its range of Skylake processors from 4.5W to 65W for the 6th generation chips. From mobile to desktop, Intel's 6th generation processor family is in full swing.
Stardock has released its latest installment of one of the highest-rated strategy series of all time, Galactic Civilizations III which challenges players to build an empire through various means.
Microsoft has started talking a bit more about DirectX 12 and its graphical capabilities that will be part of Windows 10. But an image is worth a thousand words so check out these amazing demos.
Nvidia has released its first beta drivers for Windows 10 on its website supporting a large group of graphics cards from the 600, 700, 900, and mobile series of discrete graphics cards
Microsoft has started talking about the upcoming GDC event, where the company is expected to detail its plans for gaming and development across Windows 10 and the Xbox One.
