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3DMark DLC Brings the Speed Way DirectX12 Ultimate GPU Benchmark
UL Solutions is excited to announce that their new DirectX 12 Ultimate Benchmark 3DMark Speed Way is now available to download and buy on Steam and on the UL Solutions website. – Developed with input from AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, and other leading technology companies, Speed Way is an ideal benchmark…
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Nvidia Claims 522.25 Driver Update Improves RTX DirectX12 Performance by 5%-24%
Nvidia has announced the release of their latest GeForce Game Ready 522.25 WHQL graphics card drivers, and, without a doubt, one of the key features of this is support being brought to consumers for the newly released 4090. – If you do, however, own an older RTX graphics card (20XX/30XX),…
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PCSX2 Dropping 32-bit and Adding DirectX12
I’m a big fan of PCSX2, I really do think it’s one of the greatest emulators ever created, and anyone that’s spun up Gran Turismo or God of War in 4K will certainly agree with me on that. However, there’s clearly still room for improvement, as it’s lining up for…
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Microsoft Flight Simulator to Get DLSS Support Later This Year!
Despite being near 18-months old, I still firmly believe that Microsoft Flight Simulator is one of the most visually stunning games ever released for PC. One of the biggest problems it has faced, however, is that with beautiful graphics come a rather terse set of system requirements. Put simply, on…
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What is DirectX 12 Ultimate? – Well, It’s Not That Complicated!
With both AMD and Nvidia releasing tech demo videos showcasing DirectX 12 Ultimate, I daresay that many of you are wondering exactly what it is. Specifically, if something major had happened and you’d missed the memo entirely. Admittedly, I thought so too when the term first crossed my path. So,…
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AMD Releases First RDNA 2 Demo Running DirectX 12 Ultimate
With both the specifications now confirmed for both the Xbox Series X and the PlayStation 5 (check the links for more info), we now know (as an absolute fact) that both consoles will be utilizing a custom AMD RDNA 2 chip. Well, in something of a tech demo to show…
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Borderlands 3 Gets Off To A Rocky PC Launch
Borderlands 3 is officially out today and I daresay that many of you are either already playing it or are counting down the work hours until you can. If you are planning to play it on the PC, however, it seems that the launch hasn’t exactly gotten off to a…
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Microsoft DX12 Port Support Adds Ray Tracing to Windows 7
With the ray tracing technology largely being locked to Windows 10 via DirectX 12, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Microsoft wouldn’t be in any particular hurry (nor indeed any despite) to bring support to Windows 7. The operating system is, after all, two-generations old now and, more so, is…
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GRID System Requirements Revealed—Recommends GTX1080
The GRID racing game series from Codemasters is due out in a few months. For now, the company has finally revealed the official PC system requirements. Although the minimum necessary is quite lax, the recommended hardware appears quite steep. In fact, it recommends at least a GTX 1080. Can My…
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DX12 Update Patch for Hitman 2 Improves Framerates Significantly
Boost Seen in CPU/RAM Limited Scenes IO Interactive finally released the much requested DirectX 12 support for Hitman 2. Thankfully, the company has been updating the game quite a bit ever since it launched. It didn’t even have a benchmark tool initially, but it has that now as well. Especially…
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AMD Adrenalin 19.3.2 Brings DX12 Support To Windows 7
AMD Adrenaline Brings DX12 Support To Windows 7 A few days ago we reported the exceptionally surprising news that despite Windows 7 having less than a year of official support left, Microsoft had decided to bring official DirectX 12 support to the platform. With this support now out, AMD Adrenaline’s…
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Microsoft Finally Brings DirectX 12 To Windows 7
Microsoft Releases DirectX 12 For Windows 7 When Windows 10 was first released in 2015, one of the key ‘selling points’ of the operating system was being able to access the latest version of DirectX. Admittedly, nearly 4 years on and we’re still seeing mixed results between versions 11 and…
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Tom Clancy’s the Division 2 Will Run Better in Directx 12
The Division 2 will take advantage of DirectX 12. It’s no big secret that DirectX 12 was a mild disappointment in the gaming world. Back when it first came out, everyone was expecting major performance gains, but the truth is that only some games managed to take advantage of its…
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Futuremark Introduces DX12 VRMark Cyan Room Benchmark
A new DirectX12 VR benchmark is arriving from Futuremark on November 22. This is the VRMark Cyan Room Benchmark, utilizing a pure DX12 engine built in-house and optimized for VR. As usual, VRMark Cyan Room features gorgeous visuals and eye-catching effects. However, these are not strictly for eye-candy but for…
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Is Microsoft Launching a New API?
A new trademark filed by Microsoft suggests that it could be set to launch a new API. The Redmond company has trademarked the term Direct Physics, which potentially points to a new physics API, possibly integrated with DirectX 12. As pointed out by WCCFTech, the Direct Physics trademark may mean…
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