Gabe Newell, president of Valve Software, believes that Microsoft made a serious mistake releasing DirectX 10 for Vista only, excluding Windows XP. I have to agree with Newell. According to an online ...

Oh, dear. This isn't right, this isn't right at all. With Vista leaving gamers at best perplexed and at worst furious, getting out a game that actually used its trumpeted but unproven new DirectX 10 ...

DirectX is an often-misunderstood platform. Introduced in 1995 as a way to convince DOS game developers to move over to Windows, DirectX provided an application programming interface (API) that ...

Long Zheng reports that Windows 7 is supporting Direct3D 10 in software. For example, Crysis may be a Direct3D 10 game, but if you only have a Direct3D 9-level graphics card, it might only make your ...

Microsoft's new DirectX 10 graphics API will run on the aging Windows XP operating system. This is the bold claim being made by a 19-year-old software developer today. If successful, the Alky Project ...

DirectX 10 (DX10) has been one of the hottest topics for discussion and news coverage since the first DX10 compliant hardware appeared in the second half of last year. Touted as the biggest milestone ...

The Problems with DX9 to be solved: As with previous versions of the API, development of DirectX 10 was not done solely by Microsoft. Microsoft worked with game/application developers, hardware ...

The Aero desktop effect in Windows 7 (or, more specifically, the Desktop Windows Manager, also known as the Desktop Windows Manager) will make use of the DirectX 10.1 API in order to improve ...

First person shooter godfather John Carmack has revealed that he now prefers DirectX to OpenGL, saying that 'inertia' is the main reason why id Software has stuck by the cross-platform 3D graphics API ...

If you play PC games, you've probably heard about something called DirectX — it's hard to miss, because when you install a new game on a PC a dialogue box usually pops up that asks whether you'd like ...

We've been waiting for the first DirectX 10-capable game to appear, anything really. Windows Vista has been available for almost half a year, and we've been wasting our GeForce 8800 GTX's precious GPU ...