AGS 5.4.1 now available

June 2, 2020

AGS is a helper library designed to provide a much clearer view of the GPUs in the system and the displays attached to them, and also providing access to hardware features that are not exposed via DirectX®.

This latest release includes GetWaveSize intrinsics as well as BaseInstance and BaseVertex for indirect drawing.

AGS 5.4.1 also has broadened support for libs, i.e. dll and static libs, 32 and 64 bit, as well as /MT and /MD flavors.

To find out more about AGS and to download the latest version from GitHub, please visit our AGS page:

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