Ray tracing (the fancy realistic light and shadow tech so beloved by Nvidia’s RTX cards at the moment) and variable rate shading (the ability to simulate certain chunks of the environment that don’t require so much detail as other parts of a scene to help boost performance) were already part of the original DirectX 12 protocol, but DirectX 12 Ultimate improves on these even further.'Įssentially, games need to be made with DX 12 Ultimate in mind to be able to use it, it won't just automatically change games you already have. 'In short, DirectX 12 Ultimate should make it a lot easier for developers to implement advanced graphics features in their upcoming games. If you're a little unsure of what DirectX 12 Ultimate is (I know I was), I'll leave it to RPS's all-star hardware editor Katherine Castle to explain:

There's also a bunch of accessibility changes being introduced, and those quirky lil' kaomojis are now much easier to use ♪(^∇^*). Windows are rolling out the new DirectX 12 Ultimate, which will should help some of those lovely video games have nicer graphics. But, there are at least a few things to look forward to. There's a new Windows 10 update out, which instils a tiny bit of fear into me because these updates tend to break at least one random piece of software on my PC.

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