{"id":232748,"date":"2026-03-07T06:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T12:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/microsofts-update-for-direct3d-with-opacity-micromaps-and-shader-execution-reordering-now-official-features-will-probably-mean-little-to-gamers-but-graphics-devs-are-going-to-be-happy"},"modified":"2026-03-07T06:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T12:05:07","slug":"microsofts-update-for-direct3d-with-opacity-micromaps-and-shader-execution-reordering-now-official-features-will-probably-mean-little-to-gamers-but-graphics-devs-are-going-to-be-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/microsofts-update-for-direct3d-with-opacity-micromaps-and-shader-execution-reordering-now-official-features-will-probably-mean-little-to-gamers-but-graphics-devs-are-going-to-be-happy","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s update for Direct3D, with opacity micromaps and shader execution reordering now official features, will probably mean little to gamers but graphics devs are going to be happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsofts-update-for-direct3d-with-opacity-micromaps-and-shader-execution-reordering-now-official-features-will-probably-mean-little-to-gamers-but-graphics-devs-are-going-to-be-happy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which should make devs a little bit happier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which should make devs a little bit happier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}