I recently installed the European Air War demo on my Windows PC, but when I try to launch it, I get an error saying "Missing ddraw.dll" or a general DirectX-related error.

On March 18th, Nvidia will release a two-hour demo for Half-Life 2 owners, showing what its RTX 50 cards can do: full ray tracing, subsurface scattering for translucent skin, volumetric light through ...

What’s On the CD? Attached to the back cover of this book you'll find a plastic disc containing a spiral arrangement of approximately 650,000,000 bytes of data, commonly referred to as a CD. Here's ...

DirectX 12 is the latest graphics API that powers Windows 11, but many of the best PC games still either run on DirectX 11 or include an option to switch. Which should you choose? Although most ...

Square Enix has revealed a glimpse of the tech it's developing for its upcoming Luminous Studio engine at Microsoft's Build conference today. Using DirectX 12, Windows 10 and four Nvidia GeForce Titan ...

Microsoft introduces the new DirectX 12 Ultimate library. DX12 introduces a number of future-oriented changes, the most important being DirectX Raytracing 1.1. Games developed for the new library will ...

Microsoft announced a new version of DirectX 12 yesterday, which is the bit of tech that allows games and other types of software to work with your PC's audio and video hardware. Dubbed DirectX 12 ...

Microsoft peeled the wrapping off of its new DirectX 12 Ultimate API today, with AMD actively invovled in the middle of the new DirectX 12 Ultimate API with a new ray tracing video running on RDNA 2 ...

// - Newcomers, read 'Programmer guide' below for notes on how to setup Dear ImGui in your codebase. // - Call and read ImGui::ShowDemoWindow() in imgui_demo.cpp for demo code. All applications in ...

What is a graphics API? API is short for application programming interface. When it comes to video games on the PC, developers almost always use one of the popular APIs to bring the games to life on ...