So, you’re a developer sold on the next-gen features in DirectX 12 Ultimate?
Look no further than this little guide!
1) OS
The complete set of DirectX 12 Ultimate features will be available in the next retail version of Windows 10,
On Monday, Epic Games announced that DirectX 12 support is coming to Fortnite. And today, the wait is over: anyone updating to the v11.20 patch has the option to try out Fortnite’s beta DX12 path!
What does this all mean? Let’s see if we can help!
We wrote this article to explain two key terms: CPU-bound and GPU-bound. There’s some misinformation about this terms, and we’re hoping this article can help fix this problem.
Even though applications run on the CPU, many modern-day applications require a lot of GPU support.
Below is a list of links that a DirectX 12 developer would find useful:
DirectX Discord
DirectX team on Twitter
DirectX Developer Blog
DirectX YouTube Channel
DirectX API documentation
PIX on Windows
DirectX Graphics Samples
DirectX Spec Repo
D3DDred debugger extension
We’re upgrading the directxtech.com forum to a Discord channel – go to https://discord.gg/directx to join today!
We’re going to use our Discord channel in the same way as our directxtech.com forums, which means that game developers will still have a great resource to get their DirectX12 questions answered,
Our partners at IO Interactive, the developers of the award-winning HITMAN franchise, recently added DirectX 12 support to HITMAN 2, with impressive results. IO Interactive was so excited that they wanted to share a bit about how their innovative use of DirectX 12 benefits HITMAN gamers everywhere.
One of the sides in the picture below is 14% faster when rendered on the same hardware, thanks to a new graphics feature available only on DirectX 12. Can you spot a difference in rendering quality?
Neither can we. Which is why we’re very excited to announce that DirectX 12 is the first graphics API to offer broad hardware support for Variable Rate Shading.
