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Exciting additions to your Auto HDR experience on PC

April 25, 2022 Apr 25, 2022 04/25/22
Wendy Ho
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 ...

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!

Announcing new DirectX 12 features

November 7, 2017 Nov 7, 2017 11/7/17
Jacques van Rhyn
Announcing new DirectX 12 features We’ve come a long way since we launched DirectX 12 with Windows 10 on July 29, 2015. Since then, we’ve heard every bit of feedback and improved the API to enhance stability and offer more versatility. Today, developers using DirectX 12 can build games that have better graphics, run faster and that are ...

GPU plugins, improved SDK layers, and hang debugging: Bringing DirectX 12 tools to the next level

March 1, 2017 Mar 1, 2017 03/1/17
D3D Team
If you are a Windows game developer using DirectX 12, you know that great tools are essential for getting the most out of the graphics hardware. In the past few months, we’ve been making rapid progress on delivering the tools you’ve requested. At the Game Developers Conference today, we demoed new features for both PIX, our premier tool ...

New DirectX Shader Compiler based on Clang/LLVM now available as Open Source

January 23, 2017 Jan 23, 2017 01/23/17
Chas Boyd
The DirectX HLSL (High Level Shading Language) compiler is now available as an open source project built on the Clang/LLVM framework. Microsoft drives the leading GPU shader language Since 2002, HLSL has been a key focus of industry collaboration on GPU programming. As the shader language for the popular DirectX12 API, HLSL is at the ...

DX12 performance tuning and debugging – PIX on Windows (beta) released!

January 17, 2017 Jan 17, 2017 01/17/17
D3D Team
Continued commitment to gaming on Windows 10 With Windows 10, we promised to build an OS designed for PC gaming, with DirectX 12 as one of the cornerstones of the Windows 10 gaming experience. In the 18 months since our release, DirectX 12 has seen very rapid adoption, with nearly 20 AAA games now available with DirectX 12 support. Much of ...

Rise of the Tomb Raider, Explicit DirectX 12 MultiGPU, and a peek into the future

July 8, 2016 Jul 8, 2016 07/8/16
Andrew Yeung - MSFT
Rise of the Tomb Raider is the first title to implement explicit MultiGPU (mGPU) on CrossFire/SLI systems using the DX12 API.  It works on both Win32 and UWP.  Using the low level DX12 API, Rise of the Tomb Raider was able to achieve extremely good CPU efficiency and in doing so, extract more GPU power in a mGPU system than was possible ...