If all goes to plan, Microsoft's next-gen API will usher in a new standard for visuals and performance across a whole range of devices, from high-end PCs, to modest laptops, to even the Xbox One. But ...

DirectX 12 may soon appear in a big-budget game with next month’s launch of Hitman. To take advantage of DirectX 12, players will need to be running Windows 10—Microsoft has no plans to bring the tech ...

RPG The only CRPG using D&D's original setting is finally on Steam, with fan patches and quality-of-life fixes pre-installed Fallout 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited ...

Microsoft is moving on to the next generation of its DirectX gaming APIs for Windows and Xbox. DirectX 12 Ultimate enables developers to unlock all of the hardware features on PC and in the Xbox ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. The first DirectX 12 benchmark based on a real, upcoming game is now available, and the guys at PC ...

CrossOver 23 now lets Mac and Linux users play Windows games from EA, or which rely on DirectX 12, while its new geometry shader support allows games to play without graphics issues. Following its ...

Hey, Microsoft! Where's all that graphical excellence you promised us with Windows Vista and DirectX 10? That's probably what a lot of us are wondering after we eagerly snapped up copies of Windows ...

Quite a number of you pointed me to a post on Phoronixabout how Gallium3D developers have managed to get Microsoft's DirectX 10/11 onto Linux. Surely game support ...

Now that there are a handful of DirectX 12 titles in-market, we can start to measure how AMD and Nvidia measure up in the new API. The results to-date are intriguing, and the trends don't always point ...

We've seen Project Scorpio push games like Forza 6 to native 4K 60FPS at only 66% GPU power, but Forza is Xbox's cream of the crop. What about other games? Not surprisingly, Xbox One games that use ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. So much hinges on the potential of DirectX 12. Here we analyse how ...

This week at Build, Microsoft unveiled their new graphics stack, DirectX 12, which was demonstrated to more than double performance on existing hardware and work on all Microsoft platforms. Earlier ...