Microsoft has historically helped push adoption of new OSes along by locking gaming features - like new version of DirectX - to the latest version of Windows. DirectX 12 and Windows 10 have been no ...

Does anyone know if the supposed D3D CPU-based emulation layer (called WARP) works in Windows 7 Beta 1? The driver files are certainly present (d3d10warp.dll and a D3D10-->D3D9 translator), but how ...

I recently noticed that in Portal (or any HL2 game) the graphics settings reports that I am running DirectX 9 in both hardware and software. I am running a fully updated version of Windows 7, with the ...

Gaming and multimedia applications are some of the most satisfying programs you can get for your PC, but getting them to run properly isn’t always as easy as it could be. First, the PC architecture ...