Adam Sawicki

[🇵🇱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...

Game Industry Conference Recorded talks from Game Industry Conference, the biggest event for game developers in Poland... and at least for half of Europe!

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

GitHub - sawickiap/TotalCommanderPluginTutorial: Sample code accompanying tutorial about writing packer plugin (WCX) for Total Commander Sample code accompanying tutorial about writing packer plugin (WCX) for Total Commander - sawickiap/TotalCommanderPluginTutorial

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_...

Invader's Revenge by Marcelinski Reversed Space Invaders

Many games were featuring 3D graphics with full lighting etc., but the one I remember the best is: Invader's Revenge - reversed Space Invaders. I recommend playing it. It's a lot of fun.

marcelinski.itch.io/invaders-rev...

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).

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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

Release 3.11.1 · sawickiap/D3d12info Changes: Fixed printing of D3D12_FEATURE_DATA_COOPERATIVE_VECTOR::pVectorAccumulateProperties. Compiled with DirectX 12 Agility SDK 1.616.0 ("D3d12info.exe") / 1.717.0-preview ("D3d12info_preview...

I've updated D3d12info to print all the new capabilities.
github.com/sawickiap/D3...

A big change that MS didn't mention is that DirectSR disappeared! I think it's a good move. This unified API for upscaling was obsolete already before it reached the retail SDK, while GPU vendors progress - adding framegen, AMD introducing FSR4 on the driver level, etc.

DXR 1.2 includes Shader Execution Reordering (SER) & Opacity Micromaps (OMM). They've also separated BVH traversal from calling the closesthit/miss shader! Cooperative Vectors are for vector*matrix operations on vectors longer than 4-components - useful for neural networks.

YouTube video by Microsoft Game Dev DirectX State of the Union: Raytracing and PIX Workflows (Presented by Microsoft)

They've added what was announced in GDC 2025 talk "DirectX State of the Union". Most of the features only in preview for now. Most of them just accommodating tech from Nvidia that was available in NVAPI before.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR-5...

Agility SDK 1.717-preview and 1.616-retail - DirectX Developer Blog We are pleased to announce both a retail and preview Agility SDK release with several new features

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?

D3D12 Memory Allocator The D3D12 Memory Allocator (D3D12MA) is a C++ library that provides a simple and easy-to-integrate API to help you allocate memory for DirectX®12 buffers and textures.

After years of continuous development, we just tagged a new release of D3D12 Memory Allocator library v3.0.0 🎉

🏷️ So if you want the latest and greatest D3D12MA, or just more info - head over to GPUOpen!

#Direct3D #DirectX12

gpuopen.com/d3d12-memory...

Thrilled to announce that I'll be attending Digital Dragons Conference 2025 this year! Meet me there!

My blog: D3d12info app and online GPU database
asawicki.info/news_1785_d3...

To Early-Z, or Not To Early-Z Depth In The Logical Rendering Pipeline Where Does Early-Z Fit In? When Does Early-Z Have To Be Disabled? Discard/Alpha Test Pixel Shader Depth Export UAVs/Storage Textures/Storage Buffers Forcing Ear...

In today's new blog post, I try to provide some intuition and clear up some misconceptions about early Z cull behavior on desktop GPUs. Have a read if that interests you!
therealmjp.github.io/posts/to-ear...

Friday evening thought: If the minimum amount of digital data is 1 bit and the typical word size these days is 64 bits, why the base addressable unit of data is still 1 byte = 8 bits? Does it make any sense other than tradition and ensuring backward compatibility?

Great article! I agree with you. Hopefully more people read it and stop repeating the sentence about "premature optimization" as an excuse for their Obviously Bad code 😀

Hardware Crash Analysis with AMD Radeon™ GPU Detective Unlock deeper insights into GPU crashes with Radeon GPU Detective v1.4's new Hardware Crash Analysis feature. Identify in-flight shaders and pinpoint crash culprits faster, streamlining your debugging...

Having a GPU crash in your DX12 or Vulkan app on AMD card? New Radeon GPU Detective (RGD) 1.4 now shows which draw calls were executing shaders during the crash, assembly (ISA) of those shaders, and which instructions were executing (instruction pointer).
gpuopen.com/learn/hardwa...

YouTube video by Digital Foundry AMD FSR 4 Upscaling Tested vs DLSS 3/4 - A Big Leap Forward - RDNA 4 Delivers!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzom...

New content released on GPUOpen for AMD RDNA™ 4 on-shelf day Learn about our updates on GPUOpen to support the release of AMD RDNA 4, plus other new content!

🚀 Today is AMD RDNA 4 day! To celebrate, we've got new content on GPUOpen:

🔥 Machine-readable ISA for RDNA 3.5/4
🔥 #opensource Interactive Streaming SDK
🔥 Updates to AMF + Capsaicin

Find out more: gpuopen.com/learn/new_co...

Survey results from page 22 of the LunarG 2024 Ecosystem Survey Report, showing that >50% of respondents use VMA.

According to the #LunarG 2024 Ecosystem Survey Report, over half of all developers surveyed use our Vulkan Memory Allocator (VMA) library for their #Vulkan development 🎉

Thank you for your trust and support! 🥰

VMA: gpuopen.com/vulkan-memor...
Survey: lunarg.com/2024-ecosyst...

DirectX 12 Agility SDK 1.716.0-preview Explained - a new post on my blog
asawicki.info/news_1783_di...
#directx12 #dx12

Release v1.7.0 · Devaniti/D3d12infoGUI What's Changed Updated D3d12info to 3.8.0 by @Devaniti in #23 Updated Agility SDK to 1.615.0 / 1.716.0-preview Added D3D12_FEATURE_DATA_BYTECODE_BYPASS_HASH_SUPPORTED (Preview only) removed D3D1...

New update to D3d12infoGUI - github.com/Devaniti/D3d...
Updated Agility SDK + now also using AMD device_info library for additional (and more reliable info about AMD cards)
Thanks to bsky.app/profile/asaw... for Updated to D3d12info

Usage manual:
- Use Agility SDK 1.716.0-preview.
- Use D3D12MA from this branch.
- Set Cmake options/macros: D3D12MA_AGILITY_SDK_DIRECTORY, D3D12MA_AGILITY_SDK_PREVIEW, D3D12MA_TIGHT_ALIGNMENT_SUPPORTED.
- Profit! It works automatically.