Neowin News Feed for: Dx12

Sea of Thieves boasts performance boosts with DirectX 12 update, but it's a 90gb download

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 23:26:01 +0000

Rare has pushed out a major update carrying backend changes to Sea of Thieves, upgrading the Xbox GDK and enabling DirectX 12. Performance improvements are expected across PC and consoles. Read more...

Intel wants to convince Arc is the real deal, shows off 50 games in DX12/Vulkan vs RTX 3060

Sayan Sen — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 08:10:02 +0000

Intel has shared more gaming benchmarks for its Arc A750 graphics card. Unlike the measly five-game benchmark data it gave away last time, the company has now included 10 times more benchmarks. 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...

ReShade 4.5.0 brings improved Vulkan and DirectX 12 support, and much more

Sayan Sen — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 16:02:02 +0000

A new ReShade update, namely version 4.5.0 is out, with a heap of changes. Most notably, it brings improvements to DirectX 12 and Vulkan performance, as well as GUI upgrades, and so much more. Read more...

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands could feature Nvidia RTX and DirectX 12

Sayan Sen — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 17:18:01 +0000

Blizzard's new World of Warcraft expansion, Shadowlands, could feature several new engine-level features like Nvidia's RTX and Microsoft's DirectX 12, to make for a next-gen experience. Read more...

Microsoft details DirectX 12 features aimed at debugging code

John Keefer — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 20:56:02 +0000

The DirectX 12 API has made some significant advances since it launched with Windows 10 in 2015. The Fall Creators Update added new features, including ways to make code debugging easier for devs. Read more...

Star Citizen plans to drop DirectX and exclusively use Vulkan graphics API

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Sun, 19 Mar 2017 15:30:01 +0000

The studio behind Star Citizen has revealed that they plan on using the Vulkan API going forward, effectively dropping support for DirectX 11, as well as previous intentions of using DirectX 12. Read more...

Microsoft to make using multiple graphics cards easier with DirectX 12 update

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 11:58:01 +0000

Despite DirectX 12 supporting it, multi-GPU support has been tricky to implement. But Microsoft is making this a lot easier with an upcoming update, giving users and developers a lot to hope for. Read more...

Steam's dedicated gaming OS is, it seems, not particularly good at gaming

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 08:48:01 +0000

According a series of benchmarks comparing the performance of numerous multi-platform games on Valve's new SteamOS and Windows 10, Valve's new product might have its work cut out. Read more...