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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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World Of Warcraft Patch Looks To Make DX12 Work!
World Of Warcraft Patch Looks To Make DX12 Work! DirectX12 has been released for quite some time now. It seems though that the jury is still very much out on whether the latest version of the driver allocation software is truly better than it’s previous. A great example of this…
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World of Warcraft Adopts DX12 but Gives up Fullscreen Exclusive Mode
World of Warcraft receives DirectX 12 support. It looks like the developers of the world’s most popular MMORPG have decided to update its graphics engine once more. This time around, we’re talking about DirectX 12 support, which is a pretty nice addition even for 2018. It’s true that the game…
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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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Ryzen Optimization Comes to Total War: WARHAMMER
If you’re a fan of the Total War series, then you’ll be happy to hear that WARHAMMER has just been given a big update. Not only do you get the usual range of fixes, but also support for the latest AMD Ryzen processors. This is great news for gamers, as…
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Ashes of Singularity DX12 Now Optimized for AMD Ryzen with 30% Performance Boost
Stardock and Oxide have announced that the first set of optimizations for AMD Ryzen CPUs are now available. Running Ashes of Singularity DirectX 12, the optimized performance is shows a 30 percent increase in “Average Frames Per Second All Batches” in-game benchmark performance. The performance increase claim was tested on…
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Star Citizen to Ditch DX11 and Add Vulkan Support
Space exploration MMO Star Citizen is set to drop support for DirectX 11 and instead focus its support for the Vulkan API, rather than adopt DirectX 12. The game’s developer, Cloud Imperium, has revealed that it intends to support only Vulkan, rather than DirectX 12, so as to not force…
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Nvidia Brings DX12 Support to GameWorks SDK
With every new API being launched, developers of all sorts must update their libraries to include support. The same is true for Nvidia which has been limited to DX11 with their GameWorks SDK. This all changed today as Nvidia has announced that DX12 will now be coming to the GameWorks…
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Microsoft Launches PIX Tool That Analyzes DX12 Gaming Performance
We were all excited to hear about DirectX 12 and the advantages that it would bring in modern gaming. However, it’s even though it’s been a while since this low-level API became available, it really didn’t manage to deliver on its promise, and it certainly didn’t revolutionize gaming. Not yet…
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Futuremark Working On New DX12 and Vulkan Benchmarks
With every new graphics API being launched, new benchmarks are imperative. In order to understand how our hardware really performs, benchmarks must be designed with the API being tested in mind. This is where Futuremark comes in with their 3DMark suite of tests. According to new information revealed today, the…
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The Division DirectX 12 Update Sees RX 480 Beat The GTX 1060
The Division DirectX 12 update sees the RX 480 beat the GTX 1060, after testing began for the DX12 update that hit The Division recently. The cards used were the ASUS Radeon RX 480 8gb STRIX, and the ASUS GeForce GTX 1060 6gb STRIX. Both were running on the latest drivers, and the same…
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Latest Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Patch Improves DX11 and DX12 Performance – Again
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is an incredible game and a graphical powerhouse that can really make even the fastest cards on the market work pretty darn hard. However, for Nvidia users especially, the DX12 mode was a big let down, offering worse performance with no visual gain vs DX11. Thankfully, NIXXES…
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Hitman Episode 6 Update Comes With DirectX12 and Multi-GPU Support!
Hitman is the game that just keeps on giving, as today sees the release of Hitman Episode 6: Hokkaido, as well as a rather significant patch that will add DirextX 12 support! So while many of you will be enjoying the Japanese setting for the new finale, as Agent 47…
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Deus Ex DX12 Multi GPU Beta Offers SLI Performance Improvements
Deux Ex: Mankind Divided is certainly no slouch in the graphics department, as even a high-end and overclocked CPU combined with a high-end card such as the GTX 1080 can be given a good thrashing at 4K resolutions. The latest update for the game adds DX12 multi-GPU support, bringing around…
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Latest Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Patch Takes DX12 Out of Beta
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided finally has official DX12 support, as the latest patch from EIDOS Montreal and NIXXES takes the feature out of Beta, while also fixing a number of common bugs and performance issues along the way. I’ve personally had nothing but trouble with the DX12 feature, as it…
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