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Other areas of investment in the NVIDIA’s DirectX 11 driver include an updated memory model with tiled-resources that offer more explicit control over resource management.
NVIDIA released Game Ready Driver and Studio Drivers that deliver full support for the Microsoft DirectX 12 Ultimate feature stack, including: DirectX RayTracing (DXR), variable rate shading (VRS ...
OpenGL and DirectX most likely will be following AMD Mantle API's footsteps by providing low-level access for video cards.
Valve will be speaking about its Linux/OpenGL advancements at SIGGRAPH 2012 next week. SIGGRAPH is where we usually hear about the latest OpenGL and DirectX news, too -- so stay tuned!
Over at this years GDC some slides where shown demonstrating that DirectX and OpenGL will start offering low-level access in order to reduce draw overhead.
AMD also rewrote its DirectX 11 drivers earlier this year, though the performance gains in most games were generally much smaller than the improvements provided by the new OpenGL drivers.
Microsoft is about to announce DirectX 11 later this month and obviously there is not any big noise about Ray Tracing support. Intel has to, and Intel does support DirectX and OpenGL and we are ...
Use OpenGL, but download and install the WickedGL drivers. I ran a Voodoo 3 3500 for a long time and saw a 10-15 fps increase by using these drivers alone.
One of DirectX's three co-creators, Alex St. John, explains why Apple's Metal is such a blow to OpenGL, and what it means in the long run.