Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) was one of the early companies that announced DirectX 12 support, but the company has changed its mind on that API. Instead of using Microsoft's DX12, Star Citizen will use ...

The most successful game in crowdfunding history is giving up on Microsoft’s DirectX graphics platform to go all-in on Vulkan. Cloud Imperium Games, the developers of Star Citizen, recently said on ...

Crytek's newly published roadmap for CryEngine reveals big features are not far off at all. First is DirectX 12 multi-GPU support, a complete DirectX 12 renderer, the possibility of support for NVIDIA ...

id Software is one of the best-known game developers in the world, having created smash hit games for many generations. With the latest Doom game being another big hit, and a graphical powerhouse, did ...

Futuremark has released a new segment of its popular 3DMark graphics testing suite called "API Overhead". The goal is simple: establish which CPU+GPU+API combination offers the best possible ...

Over the weekend Cloud Imperium Games (CIG), developer of Star Citizen, has signalled an important change in the rendering API used for the game on Windows systems. A year ago CIG stated that it ...

A new ReShade update, namely version 4.5.0 is out, with a heap of changes. Most notably, it brings improvements to DirectX 12 and Vulkan performance, as well as GUI upgrades, and so much more. Popular ...

IO Interactive's lead render programmer Jonas Meyer will be hosting a talk at this year's GDC in March focusing on Hitman's DirectX 12-powered renderer. Though there've been whispers here and there ...

The Khronos Group makes OpenGL and Vulkan, two cross-platform graphics application programming interfaces (APIs) that seek to run on every platform that might be of interest to gamers. Vulkan just ...

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 ...