Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is making a very surprising addition to Windows 7 this week, ...

Microsoft has historically helped push adoption of new OSes along by locking gaming features - like new version of DirectX - to the latest version of Windows. DirectX 12 and Windows 10 have been no ...

In today’s post, we will attempt to understand why Microsoft DirectX 9 legacy overlay planes don’t work with Miracast displays on Windows 11/10 with Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) 2.0 graphics ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Nvidia is releasing a new driver update today that will support Microsoft’s ...

Microsoft has released a new set of official resources to help game devs port their DirectX 12-based games onto the Windows 7 operating system. Most notably this means that it will be possible to get ...

One of the bigger advantages that Windows 10 boasted over its predecessors, especially for gaming, is that it's the only version of Windows to support the new DirectX 12 runtime. The new version ...

Gamers stubbornly hanging on to Windows 7 and refusing to upgrade to Windows 10 may soon be able to play ray tracing-enabled titles on Microsoft’s older platform. The company is expanding its efforts ...

I'm running windows XP, with the native directx installation. I tried to run the ATI Dolphin Demo (I just got a new Radeon 9100 128mb) and it says "This Demo requires hardware support of ...

Gabe Newell, president of Valve Software, believes that Microsoft made a serious mistake releasing DirectX 10 for Vista only, excluding Windows XP. I have to agree with Newell. According to an online ...

Microsoft has a huge opportunity to cement Windows as the best possible place to game, and I'm looking five years into the ...