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 ...

Much ado has been made about how Vista offers Microsoft's DirectX 10 API. But so far, the games just aren't ready yet. I was getting impatient, so I called up Nvidia, which debuted its first DirectX ...

Long Zheng reports that Windows 7 is supporting Direct3D 10 in software. For example, Crysis may be a Direct3D 10 game, but if you only have a Direct3D 9-level graphics card, it might only make your ...

Microsoft's new DirectX 10 graphics API will run on the aging Windows XP operating system. This is the bold claim being made by a 19-year-old software developer today. If successful, the Alky Project ...

The Aero desktop effect in Windows 7 (or, more specifically, the Desktop Windows Manager, also known as the Desktop Windows Manager) will make use of the DirectX 10.1 API in order to improve ...

We've been waiting for the first DirectX 10-capable game to appear, anything really. Windows Vista has been available for almost half a year, and we've been wasting our GeForce 8800 GTX's precious GPU ...

Wine, a compatibility layer which lets you run Windows programs on non-Windows machines, has been updated to version 3.0 after a year of work. The new release brings with it some important changes ...

Yesterday, Relic released patch version 1.7 to their hit RTS game Company of Heroes, adding support for DirectX 10. This patch essentially makes Company of Heroes the first game publicly available ...

If you play PC games, you've probably heard about something called DirectX — it's hard to miss, because when you install a new game on a PC a dialogue box usually pops up that asks whether you'd like ...

DirectX 10 (DX10) has been one of the hottest topics for discussion and news coverage since the first DX10 compliant hardware appeared in the second half of last year. Touted as the biggest milestone ...