Microsoft has released a preview of the next step in DirectX Raytracing to its Windows Insider Program, meaning developers can start to play with new performance enhancing features to deliver a better ...

DirectX has been with us for 25 years, providing developers with the tools to make incredible games. The latest version, DX12 was released in 2015 but in the past couple of years, Microsoft have been ...

DirectX Raytracing 1.2 has been announced at the Game Developers Conference 2025, revealing new technology implementations for massive performance boosts in path tracing. Microsoft just unveiled ...

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 ...

Microsoft is moving on to the next generation of its DirectX gaming APIs for Windows and Xbox. DirectX 12 Ultimate enables developers to unlock all of the hardware features on PC and in the Xbox ...

Microsoft announced DirectX raytracing a year ago, promising to bring hardware-accelerated raytraced graphics to PC gaming. In August, Nvidia announced its RTX 2080 and 2080Ti, a pair of new video ...

This week Microsoft has published more details on the new DirectX features more about DirectX 12 including DirectX Raytracing tier 1.1, Mesh Shader, and Sampler Feedback. All these features are ...

In simple words, ray tracing means calculating how light would fall on objects, how it looks after the light is reflected from that object, and the effect of light that falls on some other object.

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. Today, ...

In this article, we will see DirectX 12 Ultimate features and system requirements for DirectX 12 Ultimate. DirectX is a collection of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and is a suite of ...

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 ...