Triangles Are Precious - Let's Treat Them With Care

• the presentation explains the stages a triangle is passing through while being processed for rendering
• starts with a brief look at the software layers
• provides more details on lower-level hardware layers

OS Variable Refresh Rate

• Windows Version 1903 adds a new variable refresh rate option
• enable VRR in older D3D11 games if the hardware supports it

3D Game Rendering 101

• beginner level explanation of the rendering pipeline for games
• explains how game worlds are defined, and models are converted into something that can be seen on the screen

Pipeline Management

• explains what a Vulkan pipeline cache is, why developers want to use it
• presents best-practices

Advances in Rendering, Graphics Research and Video Game Production

• keynote from I3D presenting the challenges modern open world games such as FarCry need to solve
• presents an in-depth case study for Multiscattering BRDFs & Area Lights
• research investigation, implementation combinations with other techniques

Dynamic Diffuse Global Illumination Part I

• part 1 of article series about Global Illumination
• overview of terms and concepts required to understand Global Illumination solutions

Dynamic Diffuse Global Illumination with Ray-Traced Irradiance Fields

• a paper about Dynamic Diffuse Global Illumination solution
• builds on the terms explained in the previous article
• presents an overview of the problems the technique tries to solve
• provides implementation details

Tips and Tricks: Vulkan Dos and Don’ts

• collection of best practices and pitfalls when using Vulkan on Nvidia hardware
• many of the guidelines should apply to other hardware manufacturers too

Visualizing Warping Strategies for Sampling Environment Map Lights

• the article presents a comparison between two different sampling strategies for environment maps
• tested on three environment maps with very different characteristics

optimising a aaa vulkan title on desktop

• presents an overview of what requirements need to be met on AMD to enable color compression on render targets
• and what causes DCC to be disabled
• look at barriers and copy queue usage

Make Your Game Friendly for Graphics Debugging and Optimization

• presentation with a collection of options and debug modes that help with debugging
• provide a safe mode to disable optimizations and use API validation layers
• overview of tools available and APIS to add more debug information