In a scary twist that reinforces Valve's distaste of Windows 8, it turns out that the Source engine -- the 3D engine that powers Half Life 2, Left 4 Dead, and Dota 2 -- runs faster on Ubuntu 12.04 and ...

Most of the focus at Nvidia's Games Developers Conference (GDC) event has been focused on DirectX, but a rare three-way presentation between Nvidia, Intel, and AMD has emphasized that Microsoft's API ...

this didn't used to happen to me. i'm not sure what it is i've done... i've got directx8 on windows 2000, and timedemos in directx for action halflife and cs are visibly slower than their opengl ...

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Note: This testing expands upon the Metal section of our OS X review. We'll be adding these results to the review but thought it would be best to publish them separately to make them easier to find.

Two months ago, a member of the Dolphin community showed off an unfinished DirectX 12 proof-of-concept for the open-source GameCube and Wii emulator. With the new API implemented, the developer, ...