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Windows Graphics News – 2022 Q1

April 29, 2022 Apr 29, 2022 04/29/22

Ana Marta C

The first quarter of 2022 has gone by, so let’s talk about what the Graphics team has been up to! On this blog post we talk about:   We’re hiring! We still have a lot of PM and SWE roles open for several teams in Graphics! Check out aka.ms/graphicsjobs for a full list of our open jobs - we look at every application ...

Agility SDK 1.602.0

April 27, 2022 Apr 27, 2022 04/27/22

Giancarlo D

The Agility SDK 1.602.0 has been published, which fixes bugs related to depth and stencil buffer resource state validation and contains a first round of new D3D12 features aimed at quality-of-life improvements and alignment with other graphics APIs. Head over to Agility SDK Downloads to try it out.   New Minor Features Each of the...

Exciting additions to your Auto HDR experience on PC

April 25, 2022 Apr 25, 2022 04/25/22

Wendy H

Last year, we brought Auto High Dynamic Range (HDR) to your PC gaming experience, letting you breathe new life into your existing games by giving them an entirely new range of vibrant colors. Today, we’re excited to talk about the additional improvements to your Auto HDR experience on PC that are currently available on Windows 11 and the ...

DirectStorage API Now Available on PC

March 14, 2022 Mar 14, 2022 03/14/22

Cassie H

Starting today, Windows games can ship with DirectStorage. This public SDK release begins a new era of fast load times and detailed worlds in PC games by allowing developers to more fully utilize the speed of the latest storage devices. In September 2020, we announced DirectStorage would be coming to Windows, and after collecting feedback ...

Updates in Graphics and Gaming

February 16, 2022 Feb 16, 2022 02/16/22

Hannah F

Today we are excited to announce new updates in graphics and gaming. New features are available to improve the gaming experience.

The Windows HDR Calibration app will soon be coming to PCs

February 16, 2022 Feb 16, 2022 02/16/22

Ana Marta C

We heard your feedback and requests to bring the Xbox HDR Game Calibration app to Windows. In a not-so-distant future, you will be able to improve color accuracy and consistency of your HDR display via the upcoming Windows HDR Calibration app.

In the works: HLSL Shader Model 6.7

February 10, 2022 Feb 10, 2022 02/10/22

Greg R

It's that time again! Microsoft and its partners are excited to announce the ongoing development of the latest HLSL Shader Model, 6.7! Shader Model 6.7 expands texture, quad, and wave shader capabilities in response to requests from HLSL users. It is still a work in progress and not yet available in any release, but implementation and...

Windows Graphics News – 2021 Q4

January 31, 2022 Jan 31, 2022 01/31/22

Ana Marta C

2021 has come to an end and it’s time to reflect on what the Graphics team has been busy with in the last quarter of the year - we’ll brief you on hiring, DirectX in Gaming, new graphics features, as well as graphics industry news.

Agility SDK 1.600.10 – minor bugfix release

December 9, 2021 Dec 9, 2021 12/9/21

Amar Patel

This minor release contains a fix for a raytracing related threading bug in previous Agility SDK releases.  There were intermittent crashes in the runtime for apps doing multithreaded creation of raytracing state objects.

Announcing HLSL 2021

December 8, 2021 Dec 8, 2021 12/8/21

Chris B

Today we are excited to announce the release of HLSL 2021! HLSL 2021 brings an assortment of new language features that we think will make shader authoring in HLSL more familiar and productive. Enabling HLSL 2021 is as easy as passing the `-HV 2021`, and you can immediately start enjoying all the new language features like...