SAN JOSE, Calif.--Windows Vista may be delayed, but that isn't changing Microsoft's game plan for Game Developers Conference 06. Microsoft is in full force at the conference with leading ...

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 ...

British site The Inquirer is reporting from Siggraph 2007 that the next version of DirectX, 10.1, requires spanking new hardware to support its sort of spanking new features. The spec revision ...

DirectX is an often-misunderstood platform. Introduced in 1995 as a way to convince DOS game developers to move over to Windows, DirectX provided an application programming interface (API) that ...

Rich was the editorial lead for CNET's Home and Wellness sections, based in Louisville, Kentucky. Before moving to Louisville in 2013, Rich ran CNET's desktop computer review section for 10 years in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...