directx

So recently I switched from an old GTX 1650 to a Rx 6700XT. Before the switch I uninstalled the drivers of the 1650 with DDU and put in the rx 6700xt. Everything worked pretty fine. Until I tried to launch GTA...It gave me the error "err_gfx_d3d_init" so I just googled it. Apparently all the...

The much touted feature available on the Xbox Series X|S is coming to PC games on Windows 10 for those on DirectX 11 and later. The feature is currently being tested on Windows Insider Program Dev Channel build 21337 and later. The feature will not work with every game out there, but it is...

In a blog post Microsoft announced an additive layer to DirectX 12 supporting new features teased during the new console reveals this week, including variable rate shading and sampler feedback. Along with the API update comes DirectX Raytracing 1.1. Unfortunately no mention of DirectStorage...

Thanks to Fortnite, as well as the many other PC and console titles developed on the platform, Unreal Engine is one of the most widely used game engines on Earth. Epic Games just released a preview build of the engine, and among numerous other features and fixes, this one includes support for...

Microsoft has announced at GDC this morning, support for hardware accelerated raytracing coming to DirectX 12, known as DXR. Microsoft stated "Raytracing is an upcoming Windows 10 feature and a new paradigm for both DirectX and PIX on Windows and consequently we plan to evolve PIX on Windows...

Freshly installed Win10 - after games didn't start because of seemingly DirectX errors, I tried to install it (both offline and web installer). All failed with this log message: [11/03/17 10:38:31] module: dxupdate(Nov 19 2010), file: dxupdate.cpp, line: 2056, function: ExecuteInf Failed...

Looks like Microsoft today made their compiler for DX12 shaders open source. It makes me wonder why it would be in their interest to do such a thing. They claim it is to foster greater adoption resulting in the "faster creation of more complex shaders in apps and games," but I would think that...