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 ...

Much ado has been made about how Vista offers Microsoft's DirectX 10 API. But so far, the games just aren't ready yet. I was getting impatient, so I called up Nvidia, which debuted its first DirectX ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yesterday, Relic released patch version 1.7 to their hit RTS game Company of Heroes, adding support for DirectX 10. This patch essentially makes Company of Heroes the first game publicly available ...

Software giant Microsoft today revealed details concerning DirectX 11, the latest edition of its PC gaming graphics API. Similar to DirectX 10, the software will be available only on Windows Vista and ...

Rich was the editorial lead for CNET's Home and Wellness sections, based in Louisville, Kentucky. Before moving to Louisville in 2013, Rich ran CNET's desktop computer review section for 10 years in ...

Brent from [H]ard|OCP / [H]Enthusiast has written an article regarding DirectX 10 and how it will impact gamers next year when Vista finally ships. There are some major changes coming with DX10, and a ...

Traditionally, the video card people keep their hardware a generation ahead of what's actually used by the software. For example, most current models already offer DirectX 10 scene-rendering tech, but ...

British site The Inquirer is reporting from Siggraph 2007 that the next version of DirectX, 10.1, requires spanking new hardware to support its sort of spanking new features. The spec revision ...