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WildTangent Wins Sony Cash For Web Games
News WildTangent, whose technology uses Java to access Windows PCs' DirectX graphics capabilities, is betting that a combination of media effects will help it thrive where others have failed. The reason that 3D has never taken off on the Internet is...
[April 9, 2001, 10:44]
Meet The New Radeon
News Until now, Nvidia's GeForce3 has been the only announced graphics hardware capable of delivering the stunning programmable pixel and vertex shader effects built into DirectX 8. ATI Technologies has now unveiled its competitive response to the...
[August 14, 2001, 16:53]
GeForce3 Means Good Times For PC And Xbox Gamers
News The GeForce3 -- also known as the NV20 -- is designed to take advantage of Microsoft's DirectX 8.0, which includes 3D technology licensed from Nvidia. The beta version of DirectX 8 was available to developers for at least six months before it...
[February 28, 2001, 15:05]
3D Graphics World Shaken By Patent Claims
News Users of non-Microsoft platforms are also wary of Microsoft gaining additional leverage on the makers of graphics hardware, who routinely support both OpenGL and DirectX. Microsoft responded to the increasing use of OpenGL for Windows games by...
[July 11, 2002, 16:14]
Intel's Chipset Road Map Lacks A Driver
News The company wanted it to be the "next-generation scalable architecture" for its chipsets, carrying it forward as Vista PCs replaced Windows XP and games were released for the so-called DirectX 10 technology inside Vista, said Josh Newman, chipset...
[May 18, 2007, 14:29]
DirectX 7: What’s New For Graphics
White Papers Microsoft’s introduction of DirectX 7 introduces a wide range of new 3D graphics features for the personal computer. NVIDIA’s GeForce 256 GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) fully supports the entire suite of DirectX 7 for graphics.
[October 31, 2003, 2:15]
Microsoft® DirectX® 7: What’s New For Graphics
White Papers Microsoft’s introduction of DirectX 7 introduces a wide range of new 3D graphics features for the personal computer. NVIDIA’s GeForce 256™ GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) fully supports the entire suite of DirectX 7 for graphics.
[October 7, 2003, 0:22]
3DMark2001
Downloads Combining DirectX 8.0 support with completely new graphics, it continues to provide benchmark results designed to empower you to make informed upgrade decisions by delivering the game content of tomorrow--today.
[March 14, 2001, 0:23]
Word Finder
Downloads The game utilizes DirectX to deliver fresh colorful 3D graphics not found in most educational games and is fine tuned to have simple yet responsive controls anyone can pick up. Instructions are provided in the read me on how to add words.To play...
[January 28, 2008, 23:16]
3DMark
Downloads Based directly on the DirectX 9.0 3D platform, this latest iteration of the 3DMark series of graphics performance benchmark tools takes video diagnostics a step into the future. With real-time rendering and an increased emphasis on vertex shaders...
[April 30, 2003, 2:53]
Ultimate Asteroids Arcade Pack
Downloads Requires DirectX 9.0 or better. This collection of four asteroids arcade games features rendered and textured 3D graphics, tons of powerups, and unique game play. Asteroids Retro uses ultra-cool vector-style line graphics for that unique 80s...
[February 23, 2007, 20:46]
Beer Asteroids, Invaders, And Blaster
Downloads You should have a 3D graphics adapter that supports DirectX 9.0 or better to play. Beer Asteroids, Beer Invaders, and Beer Blaster are three arcade games that are similar to the arcade classics asteroids, space invaders, and astroblast.
[March 3, 2007, 5:01]
Genocide
Downloads This version features a completely redesigned, true-color DirectX game engine (no 3D accelerator card required), all-new graphics, stereo sound, and multiresolution play support. Genocide is a side-scrolling platform shooter like Abuse that allows...
[August 24, 1999, 8:23]
Matrox 'Parhelia' Aims To Eclipse Nvidia
News Besides the 256-bit memory interface, which provides more than 20GB per second of bandwidth, the GPU has an AGP host interface designed for up to 8X bandwidths and a graphics engine compatible with OpenGL1.3 and DirectX 8.1.
[May 16, 2002, 13:06]
The Cerberus Incident
Downloads This software requires a modern accelerated 3D graphics adapter and DirectX version 9.0 or greater. This game features rendered 3D graphics, a variety of weapons and armor that you may equip your character(s) with, and a host of monsters to defeat.
[September 14, 2006, 3:16]
Perfect Reflections And Specular Lighting Effects With Cube Environment Mapping
White Papers A unique feature of the NVIDIA GeForce 256, cube environment mapping is fully supported by Microsoft® DirectX® 7 and OpenGL® and is an easy-to-implement step toward photorealism on a desktop PC. NVIDIA's introduction of cube environment mapping in...
[December 26, 2003, 5:06]
DX Studio
Downloads The engine behind DX Studio uses DirectX 9.0c to make the most of 3D graphics hardware acceleration, and includes support for the latest pixel and vertex shader effects found on the more powerful 3D graphics cards.
[June 1, 2007, 23:16]
Lotto Tennis Challenge
Downloads The game is coded using DirectX, so its compatible with most part of available PC configurations. The graphics, in 65000 colors, is based on 3D rendered backgrounds and players drawn using digitized frames.
[February 9, 2007, 19:43]
Sudden Strike 3: Arms For Victory Demo
Downloads A new 3D utilizes the most recent versions of DirectX and OpenGL APIs, thus taking advantage of modern graphics accelerators power.This demo includes a similar multiplayer level and a single-player mission.
[February 2, 2007, 17:00]
Outlaws V2.0 Patch
Downloads This update patch includes support for 3D-accelerated graphics with 3Dfx video cards, support for 3D positional sound for those cards with the Aureal 3D sound chip (like the Diamond Monster sound card), and an alternate sound driver (multimedia...
[July 18, 1997, 3:11]
