This is a dumb question and I feel like I should know the answer. I had a friend come over today to see my new computer that I built. I was showing him Counterstrike. He asked what my video settings ...

The broad industry support Apple is building around OpenCL will help increase the critical mass behind OpenGL, the 2D and 3D graphics language Apple uses extensively in Mac OS X. Since the mid 90s, ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

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 ...

Recently, you may have noticed an ever-present flow of stories surrounding OpenGL and OpenGL ES successor Vulkan, a new low-level API from non-profit consortium the Kronos Group. Most notably, we ...

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 ...

The mega popular multiplayer battle arena game Dota 2 is dropping support for several aging technologies like 32-bit operating systems, DirectX 9, and others soon. Valve says the changes are needed to ...

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 ...

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The one reason that I'm leery of game developers moving away from DirectX is because OpenGL thus far has been a completely intractable problem for companies like Tridef and IZ3D. Despoite years of ...

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After nearly five years of lingering on the same stable release, the next generation of DirectX is finally on its way. But a specter hung over Microsoft’s introduction of DirectX 12 at GDC on Thursday ...