Technical Blog

Load times. They are the bane of any developer trying to construct a seamless experience. Trying to hide loading in a game by forcing a player to shimmy... 10 MIN READ

Swap groups and swap barriers are well-known methods to synchronize buffer swaps between different windows on the same system and on distributed systems,... 6 MIN READ

This post was originally published on the Developer Zone. Depth precision is a pain that every graphics programmer has to struggle with sooner or later. Many... 11 MIN READ

Modern graphics APIs, such as Direct3D 12 and Vulkan, are designed to provide relatively low-level access to the GPU and eliminate the GPU driver overhead... 16 MIN READ

Designing rich content and graphics for VR experiences means creating complex materials and high-resolution textures. But rendering all that content at VR... 8 MIN READ

GPU performance events can be used to instrument your game by labeling regions and marking important occurrences. A performance event represents a logical,... 7 MIN READ