Over the past few releases of the DirectX SDK, I've been working on updating our documentation for the DDS file format. The DDSWithoutD3DX and DDSWithoutD3DX11 samples in the DirectX SDK (June 2010) release demonstrate the details of interpreting the...

The UpdateSubresource method on the D3D11DeviceContext interface takes as one of it's parameters an optional destination offset: void UpdateSubresource( [in] ID3D11Resource *pDstResource, [in] UINT DstSubresource, [in] const D3D11_BOX *pDstBox, [in...

The new hardware tessellation feature available on Direct3D 11 video cards has great potential, but using it effectively currently requires understanding higher-order surfaces as well as a myriad of performance implications. In addition to the Windows...

The DirectX 11 Compute Shader, also known as Direct Compute , is a powerful but complex feature. In addition to the Windows DirectX Graphics documentation , here is a list of resources for learning to use this technology: Gamefest 2008 - Direct3D 11...