Questions tagged [api]

Often a similar hardware feature is exposed via DirectX and OpenGL using different terminology. For example: Constant Buffer / Uniform Buffer Object RWBuffer / SSBO I am looking for an exhaustive chart that describes which DirectX terminology is…

I was looking at the Mantle API documentation and noticed that everything is prefixed with "gr", but it's never explained why the functions are prefixed with it and the letters "gr" do not appear anywhere in the name Mantle. What does the prefix…

I’m looking to somehow programmatically query the state of graphics during a PC gameplay session. What I mean by “state of graphics” is, how polygons, textures, lighting and any other scene elements are stored and computed for any particular frame.…