Games based on DirectX 12 will be out by the end of 2015. DirectX 12 will be on Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox, and hardware supporters include Nvidia, Qualcomm, Advanced Micro Devices and Intel.

Microsoft has taken the covers off its latest gaming/graphics programming interface, known as DirectX 12, that will be supported across Windows, Windows Phone and the Xbox One OS by next year.

To explain why, Jakubauskas singled out the Direct3D 12 graphics application programming interface (API). It “differs greatly” from that of its predecessor in DirectX 11, in part because it ...

LaMothe, mathematician and computer scientist and author of the immensely well-received Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus, has reprised that technohit with the same thing for 3D simulation.

We recently had the chance to sit down with some folks at NVIDIA to discuss high performance graphics APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). With all of the noise recently surrounding AMD’s ...

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