Recently, you may have noticed an ever-present flow of stories surrounding OpenGL and OpenGL ES successor Vulkan, a new low-level API from non-profit consortium the Kronos Group. Most notably, we ...

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 ...

The best choice of Graphics API comes down to two key factors: how old your graphics card is and what kind of visual experience you want to have. In general, DirectX 11 is the best choice for anyone ...

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 ...

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 ...

After installing the massive game that is Baldur’s Gate 3 and then opening it up, you’ll be faced with your first dilemma of the game — should I use DirectX 11 or Vulkan as your choice of graphics API ...

The time’s are a-changing, and the graphics technology games have used for decades are changing right along. Khronos Group is throwing out nearly 25 years of OpenGL and starting fresh with a powerful ...

Hardware Microsoft celebrates 10 years of DirectX 12: A decade of updates to the low-level graphics API but it's still not the master of all things rendering Graphics Cards Nvidia is reportedly ...

You may have noticed while you're launching BG3 in the Larian Launcher that you're given a choice on whether or not to launch the game using Vulkan or DirectX 11. If you're unsure what these mean or ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...