Microsoft on Friday offered a public preview of Avalon, its all-new graphics and presentation engine for Windows. Avalon was originally a key pillar of Longhorn--the next version of Windows--but the ...

Microsoft plans to optimize Windows 11 for gaming with improvements to background processes, power management, and graphics performance New Xbox Fu ...

TL;DR: Windows 11 Pro keys just dropped to $9.97 (MSRP $199)—the lowest price ever—and gamers are upgrading fast for DirectX ...

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Windows 11 can feel sluggish long before your hardware is truly outdated, especially if its power profile, drivers and ...

Microsoft is streamlining how it measures and maintains graphics driver quality. The company says that separate audience-based measures for a single evaluation criteria is not needed anymore after a ...

Microsoft not only initiated Universal Windows Apps, but it also brought the same concept to Drivers as well. It started with Universal Audio Architecture to standardize class driver architecture for ...

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If you see black boxes or any graphics glitches on the Microsoft Edge browser on your Windows 11/10 PC, follow these suggestions: The graphics driver may cause this problem. Although latest graphics ...

In 1996, as the 3D graphics chip market was in its ascendency, with new companies declaring devices every month, Microsoft shocked the industry by introducing a radically different approach—tiling.

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Intel is alerting Windows 10 users that it will be providing Modern Windows Drivers for its chips from November 2018. The new Modern Windows Drivers, also called Universal Windows Drivers (UWD), are ...