I'm playing an old game that needs 8 bit textures (so I need to use direct3d's software renderer). ATI doesn't support them in the Radeon drivers (I've got a Radeon 32MB DDR). This game also doesn't ...

Valve has released its 'ToGL' Direct3D to OpenGL translation layer software. Previously used in its DOTA2 game, it is thought that Valve's move will make it easy for other developers to port games ...

The team behind Wine, the Windows compatibility layer for other operating systems, has announced the launch of Wine 3.0 - the first version to support both Direct3D versions 10 and 11 and with Android ...

At GDC the Khronos Group announced not one but two new OpenGL specifications. The headline release, OpenGL 4, includes a raft of new features bringing OpenGL in line with Microsoft’s Direct3D ...

As of November 2008, Microsoft is delivering the first taste of DirectX 11 for Windows 7 for download. A release aimed at developers, The November 2008 DirectX Software Development Kit, brings to the ...

This article will teach you the basics of Direct3D and using it to setup a Direct3D-enabled window. Even though I will quickly go over the window code, this article assumes that you already know how ...

In our last example on normal mapping and displacement mapping, we made use of the new Direct3D 11 tessellation stages when implementing our displacement mapping effect. For the purposes of the ...