39 articles tagged as api

Review Razer Mamba and Firefly HyperFlux Review

A sub-100g wireless mouse with unlimited play-time. And a £250 price tag.

19-6-18 // 3:00p.m.
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WHO adds 'gaming disorder' to latest ICD

Industry unimpressed.

19-6-18 // 11:07a.m.
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MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries delayed to 2019

Piranha boss talks of 'responsibility'.

19-6-18 // 10:55a.m.
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AMD offers Threadripper trades for Intel's 8086K

Very limited supplies, though.

19-6-18 // 10:44a.m.
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Amazon launches GameOn competitive gaming platform

Offers real-world prizes.

20-3-18 // 10:36a.m.
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Khronos Group launches Vulkan 1.1

Adds integrated multi-GPU support.

8-3-18 // 10:23a.m.
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Khronos Group brings Vulkan support to Apple's macOS, iOS platforms

Opens up the MoltenVK driver.

27-2-18 // 11:29a.m.
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Crytek launches CryEngine 5.4 with Vulkan support

Beta-status only, mind you.

22-9-17 // 11:13a.m.
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Khronos Group launches OpenGL 4.6

Boasts of new features, better performance.

1-8-17 // 10:55a.m.
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CryEngine 5.4.0 to include Vulkan support

Crytek Promises sandbox source code, too.

22-6-17 // 2:00p.m.
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Intel launches Vulkan driver support

Only for Kaby Lake and Skylake, though.

14-2-17 // 11:18a.m.
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Futuremark teases new DirectX 12, Vulkan benchmarks

No launch date yet available.

22-12-16 // 11:29a.m.
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Microsoft launches Windows 10 Desktop Bridge dev tool

Expect to see the Windows Store grow.

15-9-16 // 10:36a.m.
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The Khronos Group launches Vulkan 1.0

Developed in just 18 months.

17-2-16 // 2:12p.m.
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Trend Micro Password Manager hit by multiple flaws

Like giving away all your passwords.

12-1-16 // 2:35p.m.
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Imagination shows off Vulkan gains

Gnome Horde demo shows promise.

11-8-15 // 12:15p.m.
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Apple fails to fix back-door API in OS X 10.10.3

Rootpipe still very much an issue.

21-4-15 // 1:03p.m.
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Apple fixes major security flaw in OS X 10.10.3

Years-old back-door API finally closed.

10-4-15 // 1:10p.m.
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3DMark gets an API Overhead feature test

DX11, DX12 and Mantle to start.

27-3-15 // 11:10a.m.
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AMD puts Mantle 1.0 out to pasture

Tells devs to concentrate on DirectX 12, Vulkan.

3-3-15 // 11:43a.m.
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Khronos Group announces low-overhead Vulkan API

GLnext project bears fruit.

3-3-15 // 11:21a.m.
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DirectX 12 rumoured to bring cross-vendor multi-GPU support

SFR to replace SLI, CrossFire.

25-2-15 // 11:38a.m.
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HTTP/2 gets approved, heads to RFC

IETF standardises the future of the web.

18-2-15 // 11:33a.m.
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Microsoft boosts Xbox One with new ESRAM API

Developer claims major improvements.

30-12-14 // 12:29p.m.
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Intel demos DirectX 12 power savings

Mobile devices to benefit the most.

14-8-14 // 10:58a.m.
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Khronos Group unveils OpenGL 4.5

Teases 'ground-up' redesign, too.

12-8-14 // 11:04a.m.
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Crytek open-sources Renderdoc debugger

MIT licence for DirectX analysis tool.

8-5-14 // 10:40a.m.
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DirectX 12 to launch at GDC this month

Microsoft hints at Mantle-like features.

6-3-14 // 9:10a.m.
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Thief launches without AMD Mantle, TrueAudio support

Patch due in March, says Eidos.

25-2-14 // 11:41a.m.
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EA, AMD delay Battlefield 4 Mantle support patch

Bug-fixing takes priority at DICE.

2-1-14 // 9:22a.m.
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OpenGL 4.4, OpenCL 2.0 released

New features and performance boosts.

23-7-13 // 10:20a.m.
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Khronos Group launches OpenGL 4.3, OpenGL ES 3.0

The Khronos Group has officially launched OpenGL 4.3 and OpenGL ES 3.0.

7-8-12 // 10:27a.m.
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AMD: Proprietary APIs are bad for industry

Proprietary APIs don't work, AMD has told us at GamesCom 2011.

19-8-11 // 12:15p.m.
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Review Farewell to DirectX?

AMD's Richard Huddy claims game developers want direct-to-metal access to PC graphics hardware.

16-3-11 // 7:53a.m.
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Khronos unveils OpenGL 3.1

The Khronos Group reveals the spec for OpenGL 3.1, which removes many of the legacy features that were still included in OpenGL 3.0.

25-3-09 // 1:23p.m.
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AMD to demo GPU physics at GDC next week

AMD plans to reveal its GPU physics strategy on 26 March, saying that it will accelerate Havok using Stream and OpenCL.

20-3-09 // 9:56a.m.
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Review DirectX 11: A look at what's coming

At Nvision, we managed to sit in on Kevin Gee's introduction to DirectX 11 and since then, we've kept our ear to the ground. We've managed to gather a lot of insight into what Gee talked about from various sources inside the industry, so join us as we take a look at what makes DX11 tick.

17-9-08 // 8:21a.m.
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Microsoft DirectX 10.1 to have new Audio API

Microsoft leaks some details of its new audio API support in the latest version of Direct X 10.1 SDK.

1-8-07 // 6:24p.m.
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Symantec says API is not enough

Symantec has thumbed its nose at Microsoft's latest offerings of Vista APIs. According to the security firm, PatchGuard is already broken, so just give up the kernel.

18-10-06 // 3:47p.m.
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Microsoft says no physics API?

An interview with a Microsoft manager says that there's not going to be physics acceleration in DX10.

26-7-06 // 2:13a.m.
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Google SOAP cleans the web of malware

A group of security experts have discovered that Google can search inside EXE files, allowing them to search for malicious code.

11-7-06 // 5:44p.m.
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Microsoft is developing Direct Physics API

A job posting says that Microsoft is looking to recruit a physics developer to work on a new module for Direct X. What happens to AGEIA and Havok?

21-6-06 // 8:54a.m.
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Microsoft to create standard Physics API

Physics acceleration looks like it has some acceptance from software giant Microsoft, as it wants to create an industry-standard physics API.

2-5-06 // 7:05p.m.
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