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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 ...

Open Sourcing Direct3D 9 on 12 and the Release of the DXBC Signer NuGet Package

July 21, 2021 Jul 21, 2021 07/21/21
Tanner Van De Walle
It’s been a while since we last mentioned the D3D9On12 mapping layer. As a quick refresher, it maps D3D9 commands to D3D12 by acting as the D3D9 Device Driver Interface (DDI). Having this mapping layer enables older D3D9 applications to run on modern systems that may not have a D3D9 driver. Since the last blog post, we’ve added support for...

Auto HDR Preview for PC Available Today

March 17, 2021 Mar 17, 2021 03/17/21
Hannah Fisher
Today we’re excited to bring you a preview of Auto HDR for your PC gaming experience and we’re looking for your help to test it out. When enabled on your HDR capable gaming PC, you will automatically get awesome HDR visuals on an additional 1000+ DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 games!

DirectStorage is coming to PC

September 1, 2020 Sep 1, 2020 09/1/20
Andrew Yeung - MSFT
Earlier this year, Microsoft showed the world how the Xbox Series X, with its portfolio of technology innovations, will introduce a new era of no-compromise gameplay. Alongside the actual console announcements, we unveiled the Xbox Velocity Architecture, a key part of how the Xbox Series X will deliver next generation gaming experiences. We...

Direct3D 11 on 12 Updates

February 5, 2019 Feb 5, 2019 02/5/19
Jesse Natalie
It’s been quite a while since we last talked about D3D11On12, which enables incremental porting of an application from D3D11 to D3D12 by allowing developers to use D3D11 interfaces and objects to drive the D3D12 API. Since that time, there’s been quite a few changes, and I’d like to touch upon some things that you can expect when you use...

Direct3D team office has a Wall of GPU History

January 7, 2019 Jan 7, 2019 01/7/19
Shawn Hargreaves
When you are the team behind something like Direct3D, you need many different graphics cards to test on.  And when you’ve been doing this for as long as we have, you’ll inevitably accumulate a LOT of cards left over from years gone by.  What to do with them all?  One option would be to store boxes in someone’s office: But...

For best performance, use DXGI flip model

April 9, 2018 Apr 9, 2018 04/9/18
Shawn Hargreaves
This document picks up where the MSDN “DXGI flip model” article and YouTube DirectX 12: Presentation Modes In Windows 10 and Presentation Enhancements in Windows 10: An Early Look videos left off.  It provides developer guidance on how to maximize performance and efficiency in the presentation stack on modern versions of Windows.   ...