The broad industry support Apple is building around OpenCL will help increase the critical mass behind OpenGL, the 2D and 3D graphics language Apple uses extensively in Mac OS X. Since the mid 90s, ...

In a scary twist that reinforces Valve's distaste of Windows 8, it turns out that the Source engine -- the 3D engine that powers Half Life 2, Left 4 Dead, and Dota 2 -- runs faster on Ubuntu 12.04 and ...

There is some pretty big news out there. AMD recently released mantle, a low level API that eliminates heaps of CPU overhead (draw calls). It now seems that both DirectX and OpenGL will follow that ...

This is a dumb question and I feel like I should know the answer. I had a friend come over today to see my new computer that I built. I was showing him Counterstrike. He asked what my video settings ...

使用微信扫码将网页分享到微信 一般说来，“大事大非”上，微软（Microsoft）都是个杰出的追赶者而不是首发者。在微软看来，首不首发不重要。重要的是追赶的过程。微软可以是龟不是兔。但它却能一天 24 小时，一年 365 天不停地走。再快的兔子，一年总要歇 ...

With one of the world's biggest game developers announcing its plans to go cross-platform earlier this week, now might be an opportune moment to introduce a new version of the most popular ...

感谢IT之家网友 Thorn_Flower、C si not 的线索投递！ IT之家 11 月 20 日消息，摩尔线程今日发布版本号为 v280.90 的图形显卡驱动程序。 官方表示，新版驱动程序可以在 Windows 10 和 Windows 11 操作系统环境下实现对 DirectX 12 和 OpenGL 4.2 的支持： 优化了 DirectX 12 模式下运行 ...

Two new implementations is expected to come soon that will be a boon for PC gamers. Following Mantle API, DirectX and OpenGL will start offering low-level access to provide more efficient ways of ...

It’s a great time to be alive if you’re a fanatic about the particulars of various performance-boosting graphics APIs. AMD’s Mantle is here, Microsoft’s DirectX 12 is coming with Windows 10, and at ...

Back in the 1990s, I remember enjoying then-Microsoft-bigwig Alex St. John’s intelligent screeds (and occasional rants) back when DirectX was still this wild, unruly, nascent thing and assistive 3D ...

近日，ATi（AMD）推出了一款开源工具HLSL2GLSL，能够帮助程序员将为Windows DirectX 9 API编写的代码转换为OpenGL。 程序名称中的HLSL即微软专门为DirectX API开发的高级渲染语言（High Level Shading Language），而在OpenGL领域中，相对应的就是GLSL（OpenGL Shading Language）OpenGL着色 ...

First person shooter godfather John Carmack has revealed that he now prefers DirectX to OpenGL, saying that 'inertia' is the main reason why id Software has stuck by the cross-platform 3D graphics API ...