Navigating the Redesigned Graphics Settings page

January 19, 2023 Jan 19, 2023 01/19/23
Wendy Ho
In the settings app, the graphics page lets you adjust settings related to ‘GPU Preference,’ ‘Auto HDR,’ ‘Optimizations for windowed games’, and more to get the most out of your graphics experience on your PC. Aligning with the new Windows 11 UI design, we’ve redesigned the graphics settings page to help you get to the settings ...

DirectStorage GDeflate Reference Implementation Now Available

December 13, 2022 Dec 13, 2022 12/13/22
authorsCassie Hoef, Damyan Pepper
The GDeflate reference implementation is now available from the DirectStorage repo on GitHub. Developers can use this to easily integrate GDeflate into their asset compression tool chains and build compatible compressors. The compression and decompression algorithms are open sourced under the Apache 2.0 license. How to Build: The GDeflate ...

Agility SDK 1.608.0: Enhanced Barriers and more

November 18, 2022 Nov 18, 2022 11/18/22
authorsJacques van Rhyn, Bill Kristiansen, Giancarlo Devich
We’ve published another Agility SDK, version 1.608.0.  This Agility SDK has support for Enhanced Barriers, and a few minor DX12 features. That’s right: these features no longer require developer mode to run on your machine! Head to Agility SDK Downloads to grab it. Enhanced Barriers For an overview of Enhanced Barriers, please see ...
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DirectStorage 1.1 Now Available

November 7, 2022 Nov 7, 2022 11/7/22
authorsCassie Hoef, Damyan Pepper
The DirectStorage team is pleased to share that GPU decompression with DirectStorage 1.1 is available now. This new version of DirectStorage contains everything a developer needs to get started with GPU decompression. For more information on this feature and how it benefits gamers, check out our previous blog post: DirectStorage 1.1 Coming ...

Opening HLSL Planning

October 20, 2022 Oct 20, 2022 10/20/22
Chris Bieneman
Since early 2017, the DirectX Shader Compiler (DXC) has been open source and available on GitHub. DXC is based on the LLVM 3.7 release of Clang, which enables compiler-driven IDE integrations, powerful language tooling, and has empowered HLSL to grow as a language to include highly requested features like C++ templates and operator ...
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DirectStorage 1.1 Coming Soon

October 13, 2022 Oct 13, 2022 10/13/22
Cassie Hoef
When we shared our first public release of DirectStorage on Windows to reduce CPU overhead and increase IO throughput, we also shared that GPU decompression was next on our roadmap. We are now in the final stretch of development and plan to release DirectStorage 1.1 with GPU Decompression to developers by the end of 2022. This is one of our ...

Advancing the State of Color Management in Windows

October 12, 2022 Oct 12, 2022 10/12/22
Ana Marta Carvalho
If you're an app developer who cares about color accuracy, this is the right place to learn about some changes we made in the Windows 11 2022 Update! Let’s start by talking about color management – it is the technology and practice of ensuring accurate and consistent color reproduction across devices. If you're a creative professional/...

Announcing WARP preview with Shader Model 6.7 support

October 11, 2022 Oct 11, 2022 10/11/22
authorsLuke Olsen, Jesse Natalie
The D3D team is pleased to announce the availability of a downloadable preview version of WARP, also known as Microsoft Basic Render Adapter. What is WARP? This software rasterizer is a key component of Windows and is leveraged for rendering 2D and 3D graphics on Windows PCs that don’t have any GPU available or don’t have a suitable GPU ...

Celebrating 20 Years of DirectX 9

September 26, 2022 Sep 26, 2022 09/26/22
Cassie Hoef
The last 20 years have brought countless hours of play to millions of gamers via the DirectX 9 graphics API, with 2,500+ games still being enjoyed today. For the first time, developers experienced the power of high-level shader language (HLSL) combined with pixel and vertex shaders, paving the way for the future of DirectX Raytracing and high-...