For PC owners, DirectX 12’s release next year will solve a long running issue with PC gaming – lack of a low level GPU access via the API. Sure, right now we’ve got AMD’s awesome Mantle API, but there are developers who’re a little cautious to stray away from the well supported DirectX API..

AMD have been busy with promotion of their Mantle API, which isn’t surprising given the time and money they’ve invested in it. Developers such as DICE have already jumped on the technology, and as AMD have pointed out currently they’re the only choice when it comes to a low level API. But that’s going.

Microsoft’s GDC 2014 announcement of DirectX 12 came as little surprise to those in the tech industry, MS had boasted and teased about its released in advance after all. Rather, the surprise came with just how similarly it seemed to resemble AMD’s Mantle technology, and that it would work on current graphics cards. If.

The news of Microsoft’s new API has spread around the internet rather quickly, and despite there still being a little confusion regarding the API it’s going to be great news for PC gamer’s. In theory, it should provide huge reductions in the overheads which have long been associated with PC gaming, allowing a more.

If you’ve a passing interest in the PC gaming scene, you’ll likely have heard of Valve’s plans to push towards OpenGL and the Linux OS. The two most obvious cases for this would be the companies own (still in Beta) SteamOS, and their own Steam Machines. Many games developers are ‘in bed’ with Microsoft.

The Xbox One’s eSRAM has continued to be in the news since before even the consoles release, but for all of the wrong reasons. It’s often attributed to the systems lower performance “I don’t get this obsession with MS fanboys wanting the more powerful machine. Its not happening. Who cares. There are xbox fans who.

AMD have had a busy few days, they have just announced their new range of GPU’s, including the R9 290x (which is a 5TFLOP monster), and have also let the world know about Mantle. AMD’s Mantle API is a newly developed, open API which in theory proves drastically improved performance over the more traditional.