Hey there arsians. I program a bit in DirectX making some small trivial games and I was wondering about the differences between DirectX and OpenGL graphics hardware, which leads me to my ...

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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 ...

PC hardware companies work in funny ways sometimes. When AMD had a new driver ready that added extra features with arguably niche appeal, like its AMD Link in-home streaming tech, it was very excited ...

I just reformatted my brother's hard drive and reinstalled all his stuff. The video card is my old Voodoo3 3000 AGP, and since it's been so long since I've had to configure it, I'm wondering what will ...

Coinciding with SIGGRAPH 2011, the Khronos Group has released OpenGL 4.2, outlined exciting changes for WebCL, and detailed a new sensor processing API called StreamInput. OpenGL 4.2, which comes ...

Valve is planning to remove support for a number of aging configurations in Dota 2, including 32-bit systems, DirectX 9, and OpenGL. The changes will roll out in the coming months. The mega popular ...

The Khronos group has released versions 4.0 and 3.3 of the OpenGL spec, the latest version of the cross-platform, royalty-free 2D and 3D graphics API used on all major desktop operating systems, ...