Windows 11 auto-updates DirectX via Windows Update—you're likely already on the latest version. To force an update, open Windows Update in the Windows 11 Settings app and click "Check for Updates." ...

With the arrival of Microsoft's new Copilot+ PC line-up powered by the new Arm-based Snapdragon X Elite chipset, a new era for portable Windows-based devices has begun. Even though we will see new ...

A whimsical wordsmith at Game Rant, crafting pixelated odysseys from a lifelong love for gaming and a diet of 1UP mushrooms. The First Descendant is a new third-person shooter that has taken the world ...

A week ago, Microsoft teased a new update to DirectX 12 for developers that will usher in "a new era of performance and efficiency." Today, we've got more details on what the new 'Work Graphs' entail ...

PCWorld reports that Microsoft’s new DirectX ray tracing updates could deliver performance boosts of 40-90% through Shader Execution Reordering technology. Intel Arc B-Series GPUs showed remarkable 90 ...

The most serious of the three warnings involves DirectX, the set of multimedia programming instructions used by most PC games, as well as other entertainment-oriented applications and peripherals, ...

Valve has made Dota 2's Direct3D to OpenGL translation layer open source. This is the piece of code that allows Valve to take a standard DirectX Windows game that uses the Source engine (Dota 2, Team ...

Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 will ship with the latest version of its dedicated graphics API, DirectX 12. The software is now available for developers to test by signing up to the Windows ...

Find out how you can fix The Finals not launching on a Windows PC by applying the troubleshooting methods covered in this ...

In a scary twist that reinforces Valve's distaste of Windows 8, it turns out that the Source engine -- the 3D engine that powers Half Life 2, Left 4 Dead, and Dota 2 -- runs faster on Ubuntu 12.04 and ...