Adam Sawicki
@asawicki.info
Graphics Software Engineer. Currently at Plastic, previously at AMD, Intel, Microsoft, gamedev, television... Developer of VMA, D3D12MA, D3d12info projects.
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I wrote a blog post describing state of GPU market and what does it mean for support of new GPU features
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Thanks to @asawicki.info for letting me publish on his blog
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Thanks to @asawicki.info for letting me publish on his blog
State of GPU Hardware (End of Year 2025)
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December 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I wrote a blog post describing state of GPU market and what does it mean for support of new GPU features
asawicki.info/articles/sta...
Thanks to @asawicki.info for letting me publish on his blog
asawicki.info/articles/sta...
Thanks to @asawicki.info for letting me publish on his blog
How I Fixed My App Taking 5 Minutes to Start - a new post on my blog.
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Spoiler: Open Windows Settings and disable Smart App Control. It's terrible.
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Spoiler: Open Windows Settings and disable Smart App Control. It's terrible.
How I Fixed My App Taking 5 Minutes to Start
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December 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
How I Fixed My App Taking 5 Minutes to Start - a new post on my blog.
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Spoiler: Open Windows Settings and disable Smart App Control. It's terrible.
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Spoiler: Open Windows Settings and disable Smart App Control. It's terrible.
This article is VISIONARY, discussing the past, current state, and preferred future of graphics APIs. Someone please hire him as a CTO to make this new API happen!
My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :)
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I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
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I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
No Graphics API — Sebastian Aaltonen
Graphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve pe...
www.sebastianaaltonen.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
This article is VISIONARY, discussing the past, current state, and preferred future of graphics APIs. Someone please hire him as a CTO to make this new API happen!
Secrets of Direct3D 12: The Behavior of ClearUnorderedAccessViewUint/Float - new post on my blog.
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December 17, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Secrets of Direct3D 12: The Behavior of ClearUnorderedAccessViewUint/Float - new post on my blog.
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This video is great. It captures all what's wrong with the C++ language. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fGB... 🧵
The worst programming language of all time
YouTube video by Lazo Velko
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December 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
This video is great. It captures all what's wrong with the C++ language. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fGB... 🧵
@kelteseth.bsky.social Hey, I just discovered your website "Are We Modules Yet?". It's great!
One comment though: My library Vulkan Memory Allocator is now ready for modules - see github.com/GPUOpen-Libr...
One comment though: My library Vulkan Memory Allocator is now ready for modules - see github.com/GPUOpen-Libr...
December 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
@kelteseth.bsky.social Hey, I just discovered your website "Are We Modules Yet?". It's great!
One comment though: My library Vulkan Memory Allocator is now ready for modules - see github.com/GPUOpen-Libr...
One comment though: My library Vulkan Memory Allocator is now ready for modules - see github.com/GPUOpen-Libr...
All Sources of DirectX 12 Documentation - a new post on my blog
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All Sources of DirectX 12 Documentation
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November 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
All Sources of DirectX 12 Documentation - a new post on my blog
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Solution to Epic Games Launcher Wizard Ended Prematurely - a new post on my blog
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Solution to Epic Games Launcher Wizard Ended Prematurely
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November 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Solution to Epic Games Launcher Wizard Ended Prematurely - a new post on my blog
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Calculating the Bounding Rectangle of a Circular Sector - a new post on my blog
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October 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Calculating the Bounding Rectangle of a Circular Sector - a new post on my blog
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Using Visual Studio? Waiting for your big project to build? Want to switch to another window, go do something else, or simply close your eyes? I was looking for a solution to hear a sound after the build succeeds or fails, an Extension or something... 🧵
October 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Using Visual Studio? Waiting for your big project to build? Want to switch to another window, go do something else, or simply close your eyes? I was looking for a solution to hear a sound after the build succeeds or fails, an Extension or something... 🧵
Tips to make you look better on video calls 🧵
1 - Stick some eyes to the camera -> it will draw your attention, make you look at the camera more often.
1 - Stick some eyes to the camera -> it will draw your attention, make you look at the camera more often.
October 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Tips to make you look better on video calls 🧵
1 - Stick some eyes to the camera -> it will draw your attention, make you look at the camera more often.
1 - Stick some eyes to the camera -> it will draw your attention, make you look at the camera more often.
"Descriptors are hard" by Dr Faith Ekstrand - an interesting slide deck. A new model of descriptors coming to Vulkan!
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XDC 2025 - X.Org Developer's Conference
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October 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
"Descriptors are hard" by Dr Faith Ekstrand - an interesting slide deck. A new model of descriptors coming to Vulkan!
indico.freedesktop.org/event/10/con...
indico.freedesktop.org/event/10/con...
I'm excited Spotify now offers lossless quality. So far I used Spotify for podcasts and music played on my phone but also Tidal for music at home. Many people would say you can't hear the difference to 320 kbps, but having good speakers and DAC, I think lossless has more stereo left-right variation.
October 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I'm excited Spotify now offers lossless quality. So far I used Spotify for podcasts and music played on my phone but also Tidal for music at home. Many people would say you can't hear the difference to 320 kbps, but having good speakers and DAC, I think lossless has more stereo left-right variation.
I recommend looking at new Paged Out issue #7 - a free magazine with lots of articles, one page each. This one includes my article "Modern 4K Intros on the Demoscene".
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Paged Out!
Deeply technical zine. And it's free.
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October 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I recommend looking at new Paged Out issue #7 - a free magazine with lots of articles, one page each. This one includes my article "Modern 4K Intros on the Demoscene".
pagedout.institute
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[🇵🇱Polish] Zachęcam do lektury nowego numeru magazynu Programista 5/2025 (120). Znajdziecie w nim mój artykuł "Total Commander – wtyczka obsługująca własny format archiwum", a w nim: pisanie wtyczki do TotalCmd, projektowanie własnego formatu pliku, kompresja zlib.
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Magazyn Programista | Programista 5/2025 (120) – październik/listopad 2025 – Total Commander – wtyczka obsługująca własny format archiwum
Magazyn specjalistów IT związany z inżynierią oprogramowania, bezpieczeństwem i nowymi technologiami. Nowoczesne i rozwijające podejście do programowania.
programistamag.pl
October 4, 2025 at 9:29 AM
[🇵🇱Polish] Zachęcam do lektury nowego numeru magazynu Programista 5/2025 (120). Znajdziecie w nim mój artykuł "Total Commander – wtyczka obsługująca własny format archiwum", a w nim: pisanie wtyczki do TotalCmd, projektowanie własnego formatu pliku, kompresja zlib.
programistamag.pl/programista-...
programistamag.pl/programista-...
DirectX 12 Agility SDK 1.618.1 shipped with support for tight alignment of resources. D3D12MA is ready for it - just grab the latest code from "master" branch, pair it with the latest Agility SDK and it will work automatically.
github.com/GPUOpen-Libr...
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GitHub - GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/D3D12MemoryAllocator: Easy to integrate memory allocation library for Direct3D 12
Easy to integrate memory allocation library for Direct3D 12 - GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/D3D12MemoryAllocator
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September 30, 2025 at 9:53 AM
DirectX 12 Agility SDK 1.618.1 shipped with support for tight alignment of resources. D3D12MA is ready for it - just grab the latest code from "master" branch, pair it with the latest Agility SDK and it will work automatically.
github.com/GPUOpen-Libr...
github.com/GPUOpen-Libr...
github.com/Devaniti/D3d... D3d12info, D3d12infoGUI and D3d12infoDB now updated to support the new DirectX 12 Agility SDK 1.618.1, incl. "tight alignment" support.
Releases · Devaniti/D3d12infoGUI
GUI for D3d12info combined with GPU hardware database - Devaniti/D3d12infoGUI
github.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
github.com/Devaniti/D3d... D3d12info, D3d12infoGUI and D3d12infoDB now updated to support the new DirectX 12 Agility SDK 1.618.1, incl. "tight alignment" support.
This new video by Timothy Lottes will be the craziest way of programming you've seen for a long time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrL7...
Fixing C
YouTube video by Neokineogfx
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September 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This new video by Timothy Lottes will be the craziest way of programming you've seen for a long time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrL7...
Why the @#&! there is no VK_BUFFER_USAGE_ACCELERATION_STRUCTURE_SCRATCH_KHR_BIT and I need to manually consider minAccelerationStructureScratchOffsetAlignment? If there was such flag, vkGetBufferMemoryRequirements could return required alignment.
September 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Why the @#&! there is no VK_BUFFER_USAGE_ACCELERATION_STRUCTURE_SCRATCH_KHR_BIT and I need to manually consider minAccelerationStructureScratchOffsetAlignment? If there was such flag, vkGetBufferMemoryRequirements could return required alignment.
A great write-up about additions to Direct3D 12 API that happened throughout 10 years since it was first released.
I've got a new blog post for all of you fine folks! It runs through the additions to D3D12 since it was released, and finishes up with some of the things that have changed for me personally in my code.
(And yes it's really been 10 years 👴).
therealmjp.github.io/posts/ten-ye...
(And yes it's really been 10 years 👴).
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Ten Years of D3D12
For those of us that have been using it from the start, it can be hard to believe that Direct3D 12 has been around for nearly ten years now. Windows 10 was released on July 29th 2015, and D3D12 has be...
therealmjp.github.io
September 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
A great write-up about additions to Direct3D 12 API that happened throughout 10 years since it was first released.
What e-mail newsletters about programming, graphics rendering, game development, and related topics do you recommend?
I shared the ones that I follow in my new blog post:
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I shared the ones that I follow in my new blog post:
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Recommended Programming Newsletters
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August 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
What e-mail newsletters about programming, graphics rendering, game development, and related topics do you recommend?
I shared the ones that I follow in my new blog post:
asawicki.info/news_1789_re...
I shared the ones that I follow in my new blog post:
asawicki.info/news_1789_re...
This is the project I've made solo during Slavic Game Jam 2025. Nothing fancy, not even a game, just 5 interactive shaders, to learn how to do custom GLSL shaders in Godot (incl. temporal feedback). Source code included.
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Shader Symbiosis by Reg
No game, just interactive shaders - experiments with GPU programming in Godot
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August 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This is the project I've made solo during Slavic Game Jam 2025. Nothing fancy, not even a game, just 5 interactive shaders, to learn how to do custom GLSL shaders in Godot (incl. temporal feedback). Source code included.
reg-697500.itch.io/shader-symbi...
reg-697500.itch.io/shader-symbi...
[🇵🇱Polish] Zachęcam do lektury nowego numeru magazynu Programista 4/2025 (119). Znajdziecie w nim mój artykuł "API graficzne – wczoraj, dziś i jutro".
programistamag.pl/programista-...
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Magazyn Programista | Programista 4/2025 (119) – lipiec/sierpień 2025 – API graficzne – wczoraj, dziś i jutro? – SPIS TREŚCI
Magazyn specjalistów IT związany z inżynierią oprogramowania, bezpieczeństwem i nowymi technologiami. Nowoczesne i rozwijające podejście do programowania.
programistamag.pl
July 31, 2025 at 3:31 PM
[🇵🇱Polish] Zachęcam do lektury nowego numeru magazynu Programista 4/2025 (119). Znajdziecie w nim mój artykuł "API graficzne – wczoraj, dziś i jutro".
programistamag.pl/programista-...
programistamag.pl/programista-...
Debugging AMD-Specific Issues with Driver Experiments Tool - new article on my blog.
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July 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Debugging AMD-Specific Issues with Driver Experiments Tool - new article on my blog.
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It seems that videos from the talks from Game Industry Conference 2024 started appearing on their YouTube channel. Some interesting content there.
www.youtube.com/@RPGPP/videos
www.youtube.com/@RPGPP/videos
Game Industry Conference
Recorded talks from Game Industry Conference, the biggest event for game developers in Poland... and at least for half of Europe!
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July 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
It seems that videos from the talks from Game Industry Conference 2024 started appearing on their YouTube channel. Some interesting content there.
www.youtube.com/@RPGPP/videos
www.youtube.com/@RPGPP/videos