CrossOver 23 now lets Mac and Linux users play Windows games from EA, or which rely on DirectX 12, while its new geometry shader support allows games to play without graphics issues. Following its ...

In 1999, Rebellion developed a PC game that earned a place in gaming history with its innovative blend of cutting-edge gameplay and technology to provide a truly terrifying gaming experience. Ten ...

Microsoft’s new version of DirectX will boost performance on Xbox One as well as PC and mobile. During a panel today at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft detailed its DirectX ...

Now that there are a handful of DirectX 12 titles in-market, we can start to measure how AMD and Nvidia measure up in the new API. The results to-date are intriguing, and the trends don't always point ...

The tool allows developers to quickly and easily fire up their games to see how they run on macOS, with Apple noting that it has been designed to make the whole Mac game port process as easy as ...

In context: CodeWeavers' CrossOver is a software package designed to run Windows applications and games on macOS systems. The company describes its tool as a "completely unique approach" to ...

Valve has made Dota 2's Direct3D to OpenGL translation layer open source. This is the piece of code that allows Valve to take a standard DirectX Windows game that uses the Source engine (Dota 2, Team ...

DirectX emulation is the way Linux gamers are running Windows-only games on Linux OSes, thanks to tools such as DXVK. But up until now, DXVK has only supported DirectX 8 and newer. That is now ...

Although ray tracing can add visual realism to top-tier games, it can also maul the performance of otherwise top-tier PCs. It’s been a hurdle for years now, but we’re now one step closer to overcoming ...

One of the sticking points hampering adoption of Intel's Arc GPUs has been its performance in older titles, particularly those using much older versions of the DirectX API. You could argue that it ...