With its new DirectX preview for Windows 11, Microsoft wants to tackle one of the most troublesome problems in PC gaming: GPU crashes that are difficult to understand, and sometimes impossible to reproduce. Thanks to DirectX Dump Files, currently in preview for developers, Windows could generate an exploitable file when a TDR occurs (Timeout Detection and Recovery), that is to say when the graphics processor of the machine stops responding and m…
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Microsoft tests DirectX Dump Files, a new GPU crash report format designed for game developers. The goal is to make DirectX crashes easier to analyze, regardless of the graphics card used.