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 ...

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 ...

John Spitzer, Vice President of the GameWorks Labs at Nvidia, took the stage during the company’s Editors Day to discuss the age-old debate between high-level and low-level API performance for the ...

this didn't used to happen to me. i'm not sure what it is i've done... i've got directx8 on windows 2000, and timedemos in directx for action halflife and cs are visibly slower than their opengl ...

Sure. For one thing, DirectX 9 supports a hell of a lot more than OpenGL does. Last time i checked OpenGL was just about Graphics. DirectX 9 covers things lke handling input, sound and graphics. Not ...