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 ...

The broad industry support Apple is building around OpenCL will help increase the critical mass behind OpenGL, the 2D and 3D graphics language Apple uses extensively in Mac OS X. Since the mid 90s, ...

Two new implementations is expected to come soon that will be a boon for PC gamers. Following Mantle API, DirectX and OpenGL will start offering low-level access to provide more efficient ways of ...

I am an undergraduate Biomedical Computing Science major @ Rochester Institute of Technology in New York.<BR><BR>This summer, I have a CO-OP at the University of Pittsburgh (where I want to attend ...

With little fanfare, Valve has published the source to ToGL, a translation layer to support a subset of the Direct3D 9 API on OpenGL systems. ToGL is a component of the company's Source 3D engine.

There is some pretty big news out there. AMD recently released mantle, a low level API that eliminates heaps of CPU overhead (draw calls). It now seems that both DirectX and OpenGL will follow that ...

What was already a great analysis and optimization tool for Windows targets (including Intel® Atom™ processors) from a Windows* host, Intel GPA now includes an expanded Frame Analyzer for OpenGL* ES ...

Valve’s testing on Linux has shown that OpenGL can beat Direct3D in raw performance running Left 4 Dead 2. Valve’s testing on Linux has shown that OpenGL can beat Direct3D in raw performance running ...

Back in the 1990s, I remember enjoying then-Microsoft-bigwig Alex St. John’s intelligent screeds (and occasional rants) back when DirectX was still this wild, unruly, nascent thing and assistive 3D ...

Wine 3.0 is now available to help you run Windows applications and games on Linux, macOS, and BSD systems. Wine -- or 'Wine is Not an Emulator' -- is a compatibility layer that implements the Windows ...