Neowin News Feed for: Directx 11

NVIDIA's Kepler Mobile chip shows high end PC graphics in demo

John Callaham — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:30:10 +0100

NVIDIA showed off a demo of its upcoming Kepler Mobile processor during its Investors Day event this week, showing that the chip can run DirectX 11-based PC games such as Battlefield 3. Read more...

No DirectX 11.1 for Windows 7 planned?

John Callaham — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:01:59 +0000

A Microsoft employee has written that the company has no plans to bring DirectX11.1, released as part of Windows 8, to Windows 7, but a Microsoft spokesperson would not comment on the company's plans. Read more...

NVIDIA launches updated Dawn DirectX 11 demo

John Callaham — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 02:45:44 +0100

NVIDIA has launched a new version of its in-house benchmarking tool Dawn, titled A New Dawn, that's designed to show off DirectX 11 graphics for its high end graphics cards. Read more...

Upcoming Windows 8-based 3DMark gets first trailer

John Callaham — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:49:13 +0100

Futuremark has released the first trailer showing off what users of the upcoming Windows 8-based version of the 3DMark benchmarking software can expect to see when it is released. Read more...

Unity 4 game engine announced; adds DirectX 11 support

John Callaham — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:55:25 +0100

Unity has announced plans to release Unity 4, the next major version of its popular game graphics engine. It will include DirectX 11 support along with Linux game creation support. Read more...

Max Payne 3 PC: New screenshots and tested specs

Byron Hinson — Fri, 25 May 2012 19:09:17 +0100

A couple of new PC screenshots taken from Max Payne 3 have been released showing the game off in all it's DirectX 11 2560x1578 resolution glory. We also have an updated set of tested system specs. Read more...

DirectX 11 graphics support for Call of Duty: Black Ops II PC

John Callaham — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:53:24 +0100

The PC version of Call of Duty: Black Ops II will support DirectX 11 graphics, according to a new post from Activision's social media manager on his blog. There's no word yet on PC dedicated servers. Read more...

Max Payne 3: New PC screenshots and specs

Byron Hinson — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:41:57 +0100

New gameplay screenshots from Max Payne 3 show off some of the PC-specific graphical features such as DirectX 11 support, while we also have the final PC specifications. Read more...

Intel explains faked DX11 Ultrabook demo at CES 2012

John Callaham — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:46:59 +0000

Intel has offered an explanation on why it ran a video of a DirectX 11 game on an Ultrabook at its CES 2012 press event and tried to pass it on as a live game demo. Read more...

Intel faked DX11 Ultrabook demo

Tyler Holman — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:07:57 +0000

It turns out that, in an amazing show of confidence in their product, Intel faked the demo of DirectX 11 graphical performance on ultrabooks. Turns out that the 'game' they demoed was really a video. Read more...

Crysis 2 PC DirectX 11 patches released; map editor Wednesday

John Callaham — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:18:44 +0100

As promised, Crytek has finally allowed PC gamers with high end gaming rigs to amp up the graphical goodness on the game developer's recent sci-fi shooter Crysis 2. The developer has release three separate files... Read more...

Total War Shogun 2 finally getting DirectX 11 support on Monday

John Callaham — Sun, 08 May 2011 11:24:58 +0100

Nearly two months after Total War Shogun 2 was released, the development team behind the latest game in the historical PC exclusive RTS game series will soon offer DirectX 11 graphical support for those gaming... Read more...

Deus Ex Human Revolution PC to support DirectX 11

John Callaham — Thu, 05 May 2011 18:18:32 +0100

The upcoming PC port of Deus Ex Human Evolution is promising to be a great looking game, thanks in part to support for DirectX 11. PC Gamer's web site reports that the PC version of... Read more...

Microsoft Preps to Unveil DirectX 11 Features

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:08:43 +0100

Unlike DirectX 9, the DirectX 10 will not have a more than four year lifespan as Microsoft Corp. plans to introduce features of DirectX 11 application programming interface at the forthcoming XNA gamefest conference that... Read more...