Gamers stubbornly hanging on to Windows 7 and refusing to upgrade to Windows 10 may soon be able to play ray tracing-enabled titles on Microsoft’s older platform. The company is expanding its efforts ...

Microsoft has released a new set of official resources to help game devs port their DirectX 12-based games onto the Windows 7 operating system. Most notably this means that it will be possible to get ...

I recently noticed that in Portal (or any HL2 game) the graphics settings reports that I am running DirectX 9 in both hardware and software. I am running a fully updated version of Windows 7, with the ...

Does anyone know if the supposed D3D CPU-based emulation layer (called WARP) works in Windows 7 Beta 1? The driver files are certainly present (d3d10warp.dll and a D3D10-->D3D9 translator), but how ...

Gaming and multimedia applications are some of the most satisfying programs you can get for your PC, but getting them to run properly isn’t always as easy as it could be. First, the PC architecture ...