Neowin News Feed for: Direct3d

Microsoft's WDDM 3.2 makes Windows 11 (24H2) video encoding even better with AV1 support

Sayan Sen — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 23:10:01 +0000

Microsoft has improved video encoding on Windows 11 24H2 with hardware-accelerated AV1 encoding thanks to WDDM 3.2. Read more...

Windows 11 update KB5012643 also broke ancient DirectX 9 on "certain GPUs"

Sayan Sen — Wed, 11 May 2022 08:16:02 +0000

The recent Windows 11 update KB5012643 and Windows 10 update KB5011831 broke games and apps on "certain GPUs" that run on the Microsoft's DirectX 9 API. Also present is a related D3D9On12 issue. Read more...

Microsoft announces Video Encode API for DirectX 12, native in Windows 11

Usama Jawad — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 06:44:01 +0000

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. Read more...

Microsoft brings DirectX 12 improvements to Windows 7, starting with World of Warcraft

João Carrasqueira — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 22:12:01 +0000

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. Read more...

Wine 3.0 released with Direct3D 10 and 11 support

Paul Hill — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 14:22:01 +0000

Wine HQ has released version 3.0 of Wine after a year of development. The new release brings support for Android and Direct3D 10 and 11. Photoshop CC 2018 is just one of the programs that works now. Read more...