REDMOND, Wash. Jan. 22, 2003 Microsoft Corp. today announced broadened availability of the Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 application programming interface (API). The latest version of the Microsoft Windows® ...

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 ...

After DirectX 12 Ultimate was announced, we started adding new tests to 3DMark to show how games can benefit from these new features. Our latest addition is the 3DMark Mesh Shader feature test, a new ...

In a blog Microsoft is talking DX Raytracing Tier 1.1 and overall a previews a suite of new DirectX 12 features, including DirectX Raytracing tier 1.1, Mesh Shader, and Sampler Feedback. DirectX ...

Today, Microsoft is announcing a new version of its gaming and multimedia API platform, DirectX. The new version, DirectX 12 Ultimate, largely unifies Windows PCs with the upcoming Xbox Series X ...

Ray tracing was first announced for gaming in March 2018 for the DirectX 12 API at the Game Developers Conference (GDC). However, the first game using this ray tracing technology, Battlefield V, ...

Forward-looking: Microsoft first introduced DirectX alongside Windows 95 as an incentive to drive game developers to support the new GUI-based operating system. The company has never stopped improving ...