Microsoft is making Windows 10 friendlier to gaming developers like Valve and Steam, after its Windows 8 "catastrophe" left the gaming world in the lurch. The Redmond company has announced a new ...

At the Game Developer Conference today both Microsoft and Nvidia are announcing a partnership which will mean we have real-time raytracing in PC games released this ...

Graphics Cards 'We want that the real-time images look indistinguishable from reality. We want them to look like a film.' Nvidia has lofty goals for path-traced graphics, but its support for Microsoft ...

The new Opacity Micromaps (OMM) feature has been designed to improve the efficiency of rendering objects such as foliage, fences, transparent features, and other complex alpha-tested geometry (objects ...

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 ...

It's been a few years since Microsoft introduced DirectX 12, and there's a new set of console introductions coming this fall, so the time is ripe for the unveiling of a new DirectX version. Microsoft ...

HEXUS wrote about the launch of Microsoft's new DirectX Raytracing API, an exciting new feature in DirectX 12, when it was announced on Monday at GDC 2018. At the time we heard about the lavish ...