Satya Swaroop
Member • Mar 6, 2014
DirectX 12 Will Be Unveiled At Game Developers Conference By Microsoft This Month
After a gap of five years Microsoft is all set to unveil the next version of DirectX this month. Details of DirectX 12 will be made public at the Game Developers Conference 2014 on 20th March. The Game Developers Conference is being held at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California from 17th to 21st March. Microsoft made this announcement via its #-Link-Snipped-# and a new dedicated #-Link-Snipped-# today in form of a teaser poster. The teaser page has listed the logos of AMD, Intel, Nvidia, and Qualcomm which has led us to believe that they are the partners who gave provided their technical expertise to develop the well known API collection.
Microsoft will reveal DirectX 12 later this month - The Verge has dug up more details about the session by going through the GDC website. They have found that the #-Link-Snipped-# titled “DirectX: Evolving Microsoft's Graphics Platform†will be hosted by Anuj Gosalia who is the Development Manager at Windows Graphics. In the event description Microsoft has said that they have acknowledged the request of developers for more hardware support and they will be delivering on their promise by making better tools for PC, tablet, smartphone and consoles which will be able to fully utilise the potential of the respective hardware. Another #-Link-Snipped-# will also be conducted by the company at the GDC on the 20th March where Max McMullen who is the Development Lead at Windows Graphics shall outline the future of Direct3D. In this session Microsoft will discuss how the Direct3D in DirectX 12 shall allow developers to have more hardware control and reduced CPU rendering overhead on various hardware platforms.
The previous version of DirectX came as a part of Windows 7 in 2009, so the report predicts that DirectX 12 may be a part of Windows 9 which is scheduled to be launched in the year 2015.
Microsoft will reveal DirectX 12 later this month - The Verge has dug up more details about the session by going through the GDC website. They have found that the #-Link-Snipped-# titled “DirectX: Evolving Microsoft's Graphics Platform†will be hosted by Anuj Gosalia who is the Development Manager at Windows Graphics. In the event description Microsoft has said that they have acknowledged the request of developers for more hardware support and they will be delivering on their promise by making better tools for PC, tablet, smartphone and consoles which will be able to fully utilise the potential of the respective hardware. Another #-Link-Snipped-# will also be conducted by the company at the GDC on the 20th March where Max McMullen who is the Development Lead at Windows Graphics shall outline the future of Direct3D. In this session Microsoft will discuss how the Direct3D in DirectX 12 shall allow developers to have more hardware control and reduced CPU rendering overhead on various hardware platforms.
The previous version of DirectX came as a part of Windows 7 in 2009, so the report predicts that DirectX 12 may be a part of Windows 9 which is scheduled to be launched in the year 2015.