New DirectX 12 Agility SDK. Just preview version, but I hope these additions will reach the retail version soon. I'm excited about CopyBuffer/TextureRegions, clears, and FillBuffers - finally available without implicit barriers around them! devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/shad...

[Polish] Kto z Warszawy i okolic, w środę 2026-03-25 zapraszam na KNTG Polygon: wykład Michał "Lap-Luck" Biesek: Programowanie GPU i Compute shadery w Godot, a potem mój: Jak działa GPU? Architektura i programowanie współczesnych kart graficznych www.facebook.com/events/15924...

A wacky idea for a game (an indie game or a game jam entry) that makes you feel like like an LLM: You're shown a short chat session with back-and-forth with a "user". Your task is to provide the next word of a response. Just one word. Then, you're switched to a different chat. 🧵

DirectX 12 News from GDC 2026 - My Comments asawicki.info/news_1801_di...

Total Commander – a Plugin Supporting a Custom Archive Format – a new article on my blog (in English and Polish version) asawicki.info/articles/tot...

Looking forward to seeing what DX12 news will be announced at GDC! I won't attend this year, but hopefully they'll share it publicly soon after. I'm especially excited about updates to GPU tools (PIX). devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/dire...

I developed a skill for Agentic AI that can query for parameters of the GPU installed in the local system, using vulkaninfo and D3d12info tools. Any feedback is welcome. github.com/sawickiap/gp...

New D3d12info 3.16.0 release github.com/sawickiap/D3... It exposes new features from newly released DirectX 12 Agility SDK 1.619.0, notably Opacity Micromaps and Shader Execution Reordering

New D3d12info 3.16.0 release github.com/sawickiap/D3... It exposes new features from newly released DirectX 12 Agility SDK 1.619.0, notably Opacity Micromaps and Shader Execution Reordering

A Formula for Overall System Load - new post on my blog asawicki.info/news_1799_a_...

D3D12 Memory Allocator library v3.1.0 is released, featuring support for resource tight alignment, other fixes and improvements. github.com/GPUOpen-Libr...

#UIComplaint PIX on Windows can export binary contents of a buffer, but only if you know where to click. "Export View" button only offers TXT and CSV format. You need to right-click on the data to find the "Save Buffer" command for saving a binary. No button for that 😟

amanita-design.net/games/phonop... Phonopolis demo is out on Steam. I enjoyed it a lot! Games by Amanita Design are always fun, and this one has an original art style, and a theme I especially like as a person born in a communist country and a music fan. Looking forward to the game release.

After video from HackJam 2026 - a site of Global Game Jam 2026 where I participated this time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK5X... We scored #1 place! Cheers to all our team members, other participants, organizers, and also contributors to Godot engine, which is so good for game jams.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z9N... "Reflection: C++’s Decade-Defining Rocket Engine" - a very interesting talk. With all my skepticism about C++ I got excited. Herb Sutter is so passionate about it! Do you think it can replace the custom C++ preprocessing (UHT) in Unreal Engine?

Graphics APIs – Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow - a new article on my blog (in English and Polish version) asawicki.info/articles/gra...

I wrote a blog post describing state of GPU market and what does it mean for support of new GPU features asawicki.info/articles/sta... Thanks to @asawicki.info for letting me publish on his blog

How I Fixed My App Taking 5 Minutes to Start - a new post on my blog. asawicki.info/news_1796_ho... Spoiler: Open Windows Settings and disable Smart App Control. It's terrible.

This article is VISIONARY, discussing the past, current state, and preferred future of graphics APIs. Someone please hire him as a CTO to make this new API happen!

Secrets of Direct3D 12: The Behavior of ClearUnorderedAccessViewUint/Float - new post on my blog. asawicki.info/news_1795_se...

This video is great. It captures all what's wrong with the C++ language. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fGB... 🧵

@kelteseth.bsky.social Hey, I just discovered your website "Are We Modules Yet?". It's great! One comment though: My library Vulkan Memory Allocator is now ready for modules - see github.com/GPUOpen-Libr...

All Sources of DirectX 12 Documentation - a new post on my blog asawicki.info/news_1794_al...

Solution to Epic Games Launcher Wizard Ended Prematurely - a new post on my blog asawicki.info/news_1792_so...

Calculating the Bounding Rectangle of a Circular Sector - a new post on my blog asawicki.info/news_1791_ca...

Using Visual Studio? Waiting for your big project to build? Want to switch to another window, go do something else, or simply close your eyes? I was looking for a solution to hear a sound after the build succeeds or fails, an Extension or something... 🧵

Tips to make you look better on video calls 🧵 1 - Stick some eyes to the camera -> it will draw your attention, make you look at the camera more often.

"Descriptors are hard" by Dr Faith Ekstrand - an interesting slide deck. A new model of descriptors coming to Vulkan! indico.freedesktop.org/event/10/con...

I'm excited Spotify now offers lossless quality. So far I used Spotify for podcasts and music played on my phone but also Tidal for music at home. Many people would say you can't hear the difference to 320 kbps, but having good speakers and DAC, I think lossless has more stereo left-right variation.

I recommend looking at new Paged Out issue #7 - a free magazine with lots of articles, one page each. This one includes my article "Modern 4K Intros on the Demoscene". pagedout.institute

[🇵🇱Polish] Zachęcam do lektury nowego numeru magazynu Programista 5/2025 (120). Znajdziecie w nim mój artykuł "Total Commander – wtyczka obsługująca własny format archiwum", a w nim: pisanie wtyczki do TotalCmd, projektowanie własnego formatu pliku, kompresja zlib. programistamag.pl/programista-...

DirectX 12 Agility SDK 1.618.1 shipped with support for tight alignment of resources. D3D12MA is ready for it - just grab the latest code from "master" branch, pair it with the latest Agility SDK and it will work automatically. github.com/GPUOpen-Libr...

github.com/Devaniti/D3d... D3d12info, D3d12infoGUI and D3d12infoDB now updated to support the new DirectX 12 Agility SDK 1.618.1, incl. "tight alignment" support.

This new video by Timothy Lottes will be the craziest way of programming you've seen for a long time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrL7...

Why the @#&! there is no VK_BUFFER_USAGE_ACCELERATION_STRUCTURE_SCRATCH_KHR_BIT and I need to manually consider minAccelerationStructureScratchOffsetAlignment? If there was such flag, vkGetBufferMemoryRequirements could return required alignment.

A great write-up about additions to Direct3D 12 API that happened throughout 10 years since it was first released.

What e-mail newsletters about programming, graphics rendering, game development, and related topics do you recommend? I shared the ones that I follow in my new blog post: asawicki.info/news_1789_re...

This is the project I've made solo during Slavic Game Jam 2025. Nothing fancy, not even a game, just 5 interactive shaders, to learn how to do custom GLSL shaders in Godot (incl. temporal feedback). Source code included. reg-697500.itch.io/shader-symbi...

[🇵🇱Polish] Zachęcam do lektury nowego numeru magazynu Programista 4/2025 (119). Znajdziecie w nim mój artykuł "API graficzne – wczoraj, dziś i jutro". programistamag.pl/programista-...

Debugging AMD-Specific Issues with Driver Experiments Tool - new article on my blog. asawicki.info/news_1788_de...

It seems that videos from the talks from Game Industry Conference 2024 started appearing on their YouTube channel. Some interesting content there. www.youtube.com/@RPGPP/videos

I'm writing a tutorial about Packer Plugins for Total Commander to support a custom archive format. I've put sample code on GitHub. Any feedback is welcome. github.com/sawickiap/To...

Hardware virtual textures look like a marvelous tool for large terrains or volume compression. Alas, they are in a sad state in terms of performance and usability. And strangely, the (very bad) binding perfs varies a lot with the driver. → read here: hal.science/hal-05138369 @rcmz0.bsky.social

3 States of Preprocessor Macros - new article on my blog. asawicki.info/news_1787_3_...

ZTGK competition was full of great games made by teams of students. I am grateful for inviting me to the jury! Some games were made using ready engine (usually Unity), with a separate category of games made on a custom engine (typically in OGL, with editor made in ImGui).

Join the new AMD Developer Community Discord today to: 💥 Connect with fellow developers and AMD staff 💥 Ask questions and share ideas about #GameDev, #AI dev, and more! 👉 Sign up now: discord.gg/amd-dev

A reminder that June 10th and 11th Rendering Engine Architecture Conference (REAC) will take place - an free online event with 6 interesting talks over 2 days. enginearchitecture.org/2025.htm

Microsoft recently released DirectX 12 Agility SDK 1.616-retail & 1.717-preview. Let's see what's inside. 🧵👇 devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/agil...

I just published my new article: The Secrets of Floating-Point Numbers asawicki.info/articles/sec...

I've been thinking for years about writing a tutorial on developing a Total Commander file system plugin - so you can easily browse, pack, unpack, and edit custom archive formats. Would anyone be interested in that?