Quick tutorial I made on how to increase your brightness in Minecraft Java edition without mods or shaders. + Couldve played way better. Feinberg could roast the crap out of this run. In my defense I ...

If there's one thing PC gamers universally despise, it's shader compilation stutters, but it's also a drag to launch a brand-new game, ready to play, only to be greeted by a "Compiling Shaders" ...

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TL;DR: Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery, launching via AgilitySDK 1.619, enables precompiled shaders tailored to specific GPUs, reducing load times and stutter for PC gamers. NVIDIA will support ...

TL;DR: PC gamers have likely noticed frequent stuttering or lengthy shader-compilation loading screens in many titles over the past few years. Microsoft unveiled a potential solution to the problem ...

vec4 noise1 = texture2D(u_noise, (coords) / NSCALE + vec2(btime) * vec2(-0.9, 0.8)); vec4 noise2 = texture2D(u_noise, (coords) / NSCALE + vec2(btime * 1.1) * vec2(0.8 ...

#define S1 vec3(53.0, 83.0, 93.0) / 100.0 #define S2 vec3(68.0, 90.0, 97.0) / 100.0 #define NSCALE 100.0 / 2.0 float wave = abs(sin(coords.x * 1.1 + coords.y) + 0.1 * sin(2.5 * coords.x) + 0.15 * ...

Modern gamers are used to loading up a new game for the first time and being forced to wait multiple minutes while a “compiling shaders” step whirs away, optimizing advanced 3D effects for their ...

Minecraft has recently announced an array of major overhauls and changes, including the transition from legacy OpenGL to Vulkan. This new graphics API is set to modernise the graphics and improve ...

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