NVIDIA GeForce 451.67 Game Ready Drivers Released
New graphics drivers have been published by NVIDIA. The 451.67 Game Ready version is timed with the release of Death Stranding, which is coming to Steam on July 14th, plus...
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Tag: DirectX 12
PC Perspective Podcast #537 – Division 2 GPU Testing, Google Stadia, and the End of [H]ardOCP
PC Perspective Podcast #537 - 3/20/2019 Join us this week as we review the new NVIDIA GTX 1660 and a high-end case from Corsair, discuss NVIDIA's Mellanox acquisition, get excited over Halo for…
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Microsoft Announces Variable Rate Shading for DirectX 12
To align with the Game Developers Conference, GDC 2019, Microsoft has announced Variable Rate Shading for DirectX 12. This feature increases performance by allowing the GPU to lower its shading...
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AMD Releases Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.3.2 with Windows 7 DX12 Support
AMD has released Radeon 19.3.2 drivers, adding support for Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 and offering a performance boost with Civilization VI: Gathering Storm. This update also adds a number of new…
Read MorePC Perspective Podcast #536 – GTX 1660, NVIDIA & Mellanox, DirectX 12 on Windows 7, and More!
PC Perspective Podcast #536 - 3/13/2019 Join us this week as we review the new NVIDIA GTX 1660 and a high-end case from Corsair, discuss NVIDIA's Mellanox acquisition, get excited over Halo for…
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Uh… WoW… World of Warcraft DirectX 12 on Windows 7
Microsoft has just announced that they ported the DirectX 12 runtime to Windows 7 for World of Warcraft and other, unannounced games. This allows those games to run the new...
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Unreal Engine 4.22 Preview 1 Published: Initial DXR Support
The upcoming version of Unreal Engine, 4.22, will include several new features. The most interesting addition for our audience is probably “Early Access” support for DirectX 12 Raytracing (DXR) on DirectX...
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Realtime Raytracing Commit Spotted in Unity GitHub
As Ken wrote up his take in a separate post, NVIDIA has made Turing architecture details public, which will bring real-time ray tracing to PC gaming later this month. When...
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GDC 2018: Microsoft Announces DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
Microsoft has just announced a raytracing extension to DirectX 12, called DirectX Raytracing (DXR), at the 2018 Game Developer's Conference in San...
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Futuremark Adds Vulkan, Removes Mantle from 3DMark
The latest update to 3DMark adds Vulkan support to its API Overhead test, which attempts to render as many simple objects as possible while keeping above 30...
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GDC 2017: The Khronos Group Releases Vulkan 1.0.42.0
The Khronos Group has released the Vulkan 1.0.42.0 specification, which includes experimental (more on that in a couple of paragraphs) support for VR...
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AMD Discusses Multi-GPU Frame Pacing in DirectX 12
When I first read this post, it was on the same day that AMD released their Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.10.1 drivers, although it was apparently posted the day...
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A New Perspective on Multi-GPU Memory Management
We're trying something new here at PC Perspective. Some topics are fairly difficult to explain cleanly without accompanying images. We also like to go fairly deep…
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Microsoft Publishes HLSL Shader Model 6.0 MSDN Docs
Update (August 3rd @ 4:30pm): Turns out Khronos Group announced at SIGGRAPH that Subgroup Instructions have been recently added to SPIR-V (skip video to 21:30), and are a "top priority"...
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DigitalFoundry Dissects Quantum Break (and I rant)
At the PC Gaming Conference from last year's E3 Expo, Microsoft announced that they were looking to bring more first-party titles to Windows. They used to be one of the better PC…
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AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.3 Released
New graphics drivers from AMD have just been published, and it's a fairly big release. First, Catalyst 16.3 adds Vulkan support to main-branch drivers, which they...
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Ashes of the Singularity Goes Live on March 31st
Ashes of the Singularity, by Oxide Games and Stardock, the RTS that spawned from the Star Swarm demo, will be released on March 31st. Unless something sneaks in before then, this…
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Microsoft Cancels Fable Legends
Officially, Microsoft has not yet shut down Lionhead Studios, but they have canceled Fable Legends. They “are in discussions with employees about the proposed closure of Lionhead Studios in the...
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