PCWorld reports that Microsoft’s new DirectX ray tracing updates could deliver performance boosts of 40-90% through Shader ...

The recently released Shader Model 6.9 brings Microsoft's official take on Shader Execution Reordering (SER) out of preview. Nvidia and a few game developers have already ...

Microsoft has released a preview of the next step in DirectX Raytracing to its Windows Insider Program, meaning developers can start to play with new performance enhancing features to deliver a better ...

Plenty of news regarding GPUs and the tech behind them has come out of GDC 2025, and Microsoft has now announced an update to DirectX Raytracing (DXR) at its DirectX State of the Union presentation.

At Gamescom 2025, Microsoft presented a new technology that could prove very important for PC gaming: DirectX Advanced Shader Delivery. This system is designed as a potential solution to the problems ...

If you experience The Last of Us Part 1 compiling shaders issue, there could be multiple reasons behind it such as outdated graphics drivers, corrupted game files, or an outdated Windows operating ...

A lot of attention goes to the Nvidia and AMD driver updates. Of course, even their graphics cards have to bow to the mercy of DirectX at the best of times. The last major update was back in October ...

The DirectX 11 API is a superset of DirectX 10, including all of DirectX 10's features inside of it, in addition to a couple new ones. The new features are the addition of native support for ...

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 ...