With the announcement of the XNA Game studio express, I figured I'd do some game development for my holiday project (am I the only one who does holiday projects? Yes? Damn..).<BR><BR>Going through a ...

DirectX is the secret sauce that allows most of the best PC games to run. It solves a problem for developers by offering a standardized solution to communicate instructions to your graphics card, and ...

Ok so I want to use an Audio object play some mp3s in a program I'm writing. I got winmm.dll to play wavs fine, but that doesnt work for mp3s so I decided to go with directx.<BR><BR>Anyway I installed ...

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 ...

Add DirectX 12 Ultimate to the list of stickers and logos you’ll want to look for while buying PC hardware. As part of a new Xbox Game Bar for PC update released Thursday, Microsoft includes an ...

Gaming and multimedia applications are some of the most satisfying programs you can get for your PC, but getting them to run properly isn’t always as easy as it could be. First, the PC architecture ...

DirectX 12 is the latest graphics API that powers Windows 11, but many of the best PC games still either run on DirectX 11 or include an option to switch. Which should you choose? Although most ...

After nearly five years of lingering on the same stable release, the next generation of DirectX is finally on its way. But a specter hung over Microsoft’s introduction of DirectX 12 at GDC on Thursday ...