Microsoft has long said, and we have reminded users, that DirectX 11 is not just a Windows 7 technology. The company promised that DirectX 11 will be availalbe for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...