Neowin News Feed for: Dx10

Microsoft Weekly: Visual Studio, decent Windows 11 builds, and the death of Ninjacat

Usama Jawad — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 18:16:01 +0000

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. Read more...

Windows 11 Insiders now have optimizations for legacy games running in windowed mode

Usama Jawad — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 06:20:01 +0000

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. Read more...

DX10 effects with DX9 for patched Crysis 1.1 - Crysis AddOn

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:00:51 +0000

This minimod unlocks all DX10 graphics features in Crysis 1.1, even if you have DX9 hardware and a DX9 OS like Windows XP. You heard right, this mini-mod unlocks all dx10 graphical features even if... Read more...

Bioshock Dev: DX10 Offers Nothing To Gameplay

Andrew — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:09:42 +0000

Martin Slater, lead programmer at 2K Australia which worked on the PC version of Bioshock, has been speaking about DirectX 10 and how it "offers your gameplay nothing". Reported on Kotaku, Slater spoke about DX10... Read more...

NVIDIA GeForce 8800M: Fast DX10 Mobile GPUs Finally Arrive

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:05:23 +0000

It has been more than a year since NVIDIA released their GeForce 8800 GTX graphics chip for desktop computers - a chip that remains to this day the fastest gaming GPU (if we include the... Read more...

Company of Heroes DX10 Patch

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:32:43 +0000

The DX10 patch for Company of Heroes has been released, bringing to v1.70 this real-time strategy game set in World War II and developed by Relic Entertainment. A playable demo can be found here. NVIDIA... Read more...

Project aims to bring DX10 gaming to XP, Linux, OS X

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:55:09 +0000

Falling Leaf Systems has stareted up the Alky Project (currently in alpha), which aims to liberate DirectX 10 gaming from the confines of Vista and bring it first to Windows XP, and then to Linux... Read more...

Gaming in Vista with DX10 goodness?

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:12:05 +0000

Turns out that Vista's DirectX 10 is not fully backwards compatible with DirectX 9, and Vista does not ship with the components required for all games that utilize DirectX 9.. Therefore, if you get any... Read more...

John Carmack Speaks on DX10, Vista, Xbox 360, PS3, Wii

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:29:50 +0000

When John Carmack speaks, the industry tends to listen. While it can be argued that his influence today on the gaming industry isn’t as big as it was when nearly every 3D shooter was using... Read more...