Microsoft just made it easier for developers to get DX12 features and technologies into their games, for gamers to enjoy, much easier than ever before with the introduction of DirectX 12 Agility. VentureBeat: DirectX 12 Agility SDK enables new graphics features without an OS update Microsoft wants to make it easier for developers to support new DirectX graphical features as they release. To that end, the company revealed the DirectX 12 Agility SDK today.

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This toolkit enables ... DirectX 12 Agility SDK enables new graphics features without an OS update TweakTown: DirectX 12 Agility announced: making it easier for game devs and PC DirectX 12 Agility announced: making it easier for game devs and PC TweakTown: DirectX just got an update that will massively boost ray tracing performance in games TL;DR: Real-time ray tracing is now standard in AAA games, with Path Tracing emerging as the next visual breakthrough, enabled by technologies like DLSS, Neural Rendering, and DirectX Raytracing 1.2.