{"id":12636,"date":"2025-12-02T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T18:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/directx\/?p=12636"},"modified":"2025-12-02T11:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:04:09","slug":"directx-graphics-samples-updated-to-agility-sdk-enhanced-barriers-examples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/directx\/directx-graphics-samples-updated-to-agility-sdk-enhanced-barriers-examples\/","title":{"rendered":"DirectX Graphics Samples Updated to Agility SDK + Enhanced Barriers examples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re excited to share all DirectX Graphics Samples have been updated to use the latest DirectX 12 Agility SDK.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s New:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Agility SDK Integration<\/strong>: All samples now leverage the latest Agility SDK for improved compatibility and faster adoption of new DirectX capabilities.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Enhanced Barriers Support<\/strong>: Three samples (Multithreading, Small Resources, and nBodyGravity) have been upgraded to use D3D12 Enhanced Barriers when supported by hardware and drivers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why Enhanced Barriers Matter:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/microsoft.github.io\/DirectX-Specs\/d3d\/D3D12EnhancedBarriers.html\">Enhanced Barriers<\/a> introduce a more expressive and predictable <span data-ogsc=\"black\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">barrier model, reducing synchronization overhead and simplifying resource layout management and aliasing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Get Started:\nVisit <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/DirectX-Graphics-Samples\">https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/DirectX-Graphics-Samples<\/a> to explore the updated samples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re excited to share all DirectX Graphics Samples have been updated to use the latest DirectX 12 Agility SDK. What\u2019s New: Agility SDK Integration: All samples now leverage the latest Agility SDK for improved compatibility and faster adoption of new DirectX capabilities. Enhanced Barriers Support: Three samples (Multithreading, Small Resources, and nBodyGravity) have been upgraded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198956,"featured_media":4878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-directx"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>We\u2019re excited to share all DirectX Graphics Samples have been updated to use the latest DirectX 12 Agility SDK. What\u2019s New: Agility SDK Integration: All samples now leverage the latest Agility SDK for improved compatibility and faster adoption of new DirectX capabilities. Enhanced Barriers Support: Three samples (Multithreading, Small Resources, and nBodyGravity) have been upgraded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/directx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/directx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/directx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/directx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198956"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/directx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/directx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/directx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/directx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/directx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/directx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}