If you're on the fence about upgrading to Windows 8 and its formerly-known-as-Metro tablet-style user interface, Microsoft may have just made the decision a little easier. The company has announced ...

The latest flavor of the API suite that enables 3D animation and other multimedia effects remains exclusive to Windows 8 as Microsoft has no plans to port it over to Windows 7. Lance Whitney is a ...

AMD has spent the last few weeks touting the new features incorporated into the upcoming Radeon HD 3800 series, and chief among these has been support for the DirectX 10.1 standard. NVIDIA isn't ...

Microsoft has detailed all of the changes made with DirectX 11.1, and even though there aren't too many worth writing about, there's one new feature that is: native support for stereoscopic 3D. Gone ...

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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 ...

If you like keeping current with your DirectX version and happen to dislike Windows 8, you're going to be finding yourself in a bit of a bind. Despite having shipped alongside Windows 8, DirectX 11.1 ...

We keep hearing gamers wail about the DirectX 10.1 release and how it kept DirectX10 compliant hardware away from the party. Our own PC Guy Johnathan Neuls dug into the story and found the truth of ...

DirectX 11.1 is exclusive to the divisive Windows 8 operating system, Microsoft has confirmed. Microsoft's Daniel Moth wrote on the Microsoft Answers forum that DirectX 11.1 is part of Windows 8, as ...