A recent post on Microsoft’s Building Windows 8 blog explains how DirectX 11.1 and hardware acceleration improves UI performance and maximizes battery life. A recent post on Microsoft’s Building ...

Here is a recent problem I had concerning DirectDraw (fullscreen DirectX applications).<P> One sunny morning, as I went to boot up my machine (a 466MHz Celeron w/ 384 RAM, BT878 TV card, GF2 MX400 ...

Since November of last year, one of Microsoft's big themes for Internet Explorer 9 has been "graphics hardware acceleration" using Windows DirectX. Just last week, Mozilla's Firefox 4 beta turned on ...

Microsoft will bring its famed set of DirectX gaming application programming interfaces to the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) environment to provide hardware accelerated graphics for Linux ...

Shortly after the Nvidia announcement, Microsoft follows by adding DirectX Raytracing to the DirectX 12 api. According to the manufacturer, the technology clears the way for games that are partly ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Your video adapter (neomagic magicmedia 256av) indicates it does not support Direct3D or OpenGL acceleration. Toontown ...

Microsoft’s next browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), will offload image and text rendering chores to the PC’s graphic processor, one way the company plans to increase the browser’s overall performance ...

Microsoft has released the beta of its first major revision of DirectX since DirectX 8 was released in late 2000. Like DX8, which introduced support for the programmable shader effects that were a ...

With many power users staring blankly at Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 release in bemusement, the company needs to do some serious work to convince them of the benefits that come with an upgrade - ...