What is now the foundation of most PC games began almost 30 years ago as a desperate act of self-defence. A look at ...

Back in the 1990s, I remember enjoying then-Microsoft-bigwig Alex St. John’s intelligent screeds (and occasional rants) back when DirectX was still this wild, unruly, nascent thing and assistive 3D ...

Microsoft is making Windows 10 friendlier to gaming developers like Valve and Steam, after its Windows 8 "catastrophe" left the gaming world in the lurch. The Redmond company has announced a new ...

The new graphics API comes with new buzzwords. We’ll tell you what they mean and how they matter to your gaming experience. Just when you think you’ve grasped all the jargon surrounding 3D graphics, ...

The PC version of Max Payne 3 supports DirectX 11 features and 3D functionality, developer Rockstar has revealed. An official fact sheet, as picked up by Videogamer, states that the PC SKU "is not a ...

Let me begin, up until recently I was using the 12.00WHQL Detonator 3's, all was fine. perfectly stable and so on. then it developed this odd problem.<P>Launching any OpenGL application, using, and ...

One version number change by Microsoft could lead to a sea change in the PC graphics adapter market. That is the view of Neil Trevett, co-founder of UK-based 3DLabs. Microsoft's upcoming DirectX 8 ...

Rich was the editorial lead for CNET's Home and Wellness sections, based in Louisville, Kentucky. Before moving to Louisville in 2013, Rich ran CNET's desktop computer review section for 10 years in ...

First person shooter godfather John Carmack has revealed that he now prefers DirectX to OpenGL, saying that 'inertia' is the main reason why id Software has stuck by the cross-platform 3D graphics API ...

In a scary twist that reinforces Valve's distaste of Windows 8, it turns out that the Source engine -- the 3D engine that powers Half Life 2, Left 4 Dead, and Dota 2 -- runs faster on Ubuntu 12.04 and ...