Tag Archives: DirectX 12

Microsoft announces DirectX 12 Ultimate, featuring DirectX Raytracing 1.1, new tech demo video

Microsoft has just announced DirectX 12 Ultimate; the culmination of the best graphics technology we’ve ever introduced in an unprecedented alignment between PC and Xbox Series X. Moreover, AMD has shared a new tech video, showing DirectX Raytracing 1.1. in action. Continue reading Microsoft announces DirectX 12 Ultimate, featuring DirectX Raytracing 1.1, new tech demo video

New Reshade version is available for download, offering experimental support for DX12 games

And the time has finally come. In case you weren’t aware of, all these past years Reshade was not compatible with the latest DirectX API, DX12. However, this is about to change as a new version has been released that offers experimental compatibility with Microsoft’s latest API. Continue reading New Reshade version is available for download, offering experimental support for DX12 games

New DXR Tech Demo shows amazing real-time ray tracing and global illumination effects

Opus Visual has released a new video, showcasing its new DXR Tech Demo. This demo was created for the Nvidia DXR Contest and showcases real-time raytracing and global illumination capabilities. Unfortunately, the team did not release this tech demo to the public so we don’t know what it requires in order to run with 60fps at both 1080p and 1440p. Continue reading New DXR Tech Demo shows amazing real-time ray tracing and global illumination effects

DX12 is noticeably faster in Anno 1800 than DX11 on older systems, 10fps performance improvement

Anno 1800 releases tomorrow and Ubisoft has provided us with a review code for our PC Performance Analysis purposes. This new strategy game comes with support for both DX11 and DX12, therefore we’ve decided to benchmark these two APIs in order to see whether there are any meaningful performance differences between them. Continue reading DX12 is noticeably faster in Anno 1800 than DX11 on older systems, 10fps performance improvement

Microsoft brings DirectX 12 to Windows 7, World of Warcraft the first game supporting it

Now here is a pleasant surprise. Microsoft has announced that it is bringing its latest API, DirectX 12, to Windows 7. Yeap, you read that right. Windows 7 now supports DX12 and the first game that can take advantage of it is World of Warcraft. Continue reading Microsoft brings DirectX 12 to Windows 7, World of Warcraft the first game supporting it