directx

Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.

RenderDoc is a stand-alone graphics debugging tool.

Play your favorite games in a borderless window; no more time consuming alt-tabs.

The Forge Cross-Platform Framework PC Windows, Steamdeck (native), Ray Tracing, macOS / iOS, Android, XBOX, PS4, PS5, Switch, Quest 2

TiXL is an open source software to create realtime motion graphics.

high-performance rendering backend (C++, Python, C#, Java)

A modern cross-platform low-level graphics library and rendering framework

Renovation Engine for DirectX Games

Overlay for running GPU shaders on top of Windows desktop and Wine

Improved version of the X-Ray Engine, the game engine used in the world-famous S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series by GSC Game World. Join OpenXRay! ;)

GDI, OpenGL and Direct3D 9 re-implementation of the DirectDraw API for classic 2D games for better compatibility with Windows ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, 11, Wine (Linux/macOS/Android) and Virtual Machines

LYGIA, it's a granular and multi-language (GLSL, HLSL, Metal, WGSL, WEGL and CUDA) shader library designed for performance and flexibility

A .NET library to run C# code in parallel on the GPU through DX12, D2D1, and dynamically generated HLSL compute and pixel shaders, with the goal of making GPU computing easy to use for all .NET developers! 🚀

The DirectX Tool Kit (aka DirectXTK) is a collection of helper classes for writing DirectX 11.x code in C++

Low Level Graphics Library (LLGL) is a thin abstraction layer for the modern graphics APIs OpenGL, Direct3D, Vulkan, and Metal

Helix Toolkit is a collection of 3D components for .NET.

DirectXTex texture processing library

Next-gen open source ambient lighting system featuring a high-precision floating-point color pipeline breaking legacy RGB 24-bit limits. Includes advanced smoothing with inertia and adaptive temporal dithering for perfectly fluid, stable output to LEDs from any SDR or HDR video source. Supports Windows, macOS and Linux (x86/ARM).

Fixes compatibility issues with older games running on Windows 10/11 by wrapping DirectX dlls. Also allows loading custom libraries with the file extension .asi into game processes.

DirectXMath is an all inline SIMD C++ linear algebra library for use in games and graphics apps