The Internet’s been abuzz over the promise of Windows 10’s underlying DirectX 12 gaming technology for months now. Drastically higher frame rates! Drastically lower power consumption! Drastically ...

Not many people remember this, but the original Xbox got its name from Microsoft’s plans to deliver a “DirectX Box” to the home console market. Not many people remember this, but the original Xbox got ...

Microsoft has released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19013 (20H1) to Insiders in the Fast ring, bringing new DirectX 12 features and a long list of changes, improvements, and fixes. To see the full ...

What is now the foundation of most PC games began almost 30 years ago as a desperate act of self-defence. A look at technology, triumphs and failures. What is now the foundation for most PC games ...

If you’re buying or building a new gaming PC for Windows 10 and DirectX 12, your priority should be as many “real” CPU cores you can afford, running at high clock speeds. At least, that’s the ...

Microsoft is making Windows 10 friendlier to gaming developers like Valve and Steam, after its Windows 8 "catastrophe" left the gaming world in the lurch. The Redmond company has announced a new ...

The tool allows developers to quickly and easily fire up their games to see how they run on macOS, with Apple noting that it has been designed to make the whole Mac game port process as easy as ...

If when you try to start a program, you receive an error message – This program can’t start because xinput1_3.dll, xinput1_4.dll or d3dx9_43.dll is missing from ...

One of the new features in macOS Sonoma is Game Mode, which Apple claims improves gaming performance on Apple Silicon Macs. But there’s something else Apple has been doing to turn the Mac into a ...

PC gamers are reporting the issue whereby while playing any game on their Windows 11 or Windows 10 computer they encounter an error which causes the game in play to ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Earlier today, Microsoft unleashed a ton of new Windows 10 information, including numerous gaming ...