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Optimizing hybrid laptop performance with Cross Adapter Scan-Out (CASO)

September 25, 2023 Sep 25, 2023 09/25/23
authorsNeeraj Gera, James O'Connor, Chinmay Wadgaonkar
Introduction For an avid gamer, having a robust Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is non-negotiable for an optimal gaming experience. Hybrid laptops, equipped with both an integrated GPU (iGPU) and a discrete GPU (dGPU), have become a popular choice for many. If you've delved into maximizing your laptop gaming performance, you've undoubtedly ...

Gaming with Windows ML

March 19, 2018 Mar 19, 2018 03/19/18
Cassie Hoef
Neural Networks Will Revolutionize Gaming Earlier this month, Microsoft announced the availability of Windows Machine Learning. We mentioned the wide-ranging applications of WinML on areas as diverse as security, productivity, and the internet of things. We even showed how WinML can be used to help cameras detect faulty chips during hardware ...

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 ...

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 ...