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Directx projects on GitHub

Microsoft graphics APIs used for rendering and game development on Windows.

As of , the most-starred Directx projects on GitHub are Proton (33.1K stars), cheat-engine (19.3K stars) and bgfx (17.6K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 9 Directx repositories with 106.7K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was wowdecomp, with +36 stars in a day.

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106.7KStars in total
+92Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 18

+36

wowdecomp

SatyPardus/wowdecomp · ★ 327

wowdecomp is a C++ decompilation of the World of Warcraft 3.3.5a client (Wow.exe, build 12340, June 2010), reconstructing the original game executable function by function from its binary.

+23

OptiScaler

optiscaler/OptiScaler · ★ 11.9K

OptiScaler is a Windows tool for PC games that lets you replace the upscaler a game uses (DLSS2+, FSR2+ or XeSS) with a different one, and also manage frame generation — including adding it to DX12 games via the experimental OptiFG.

+12

Proton

ValveSoftware/Proton · ★ 33.1K

Proton is a compatibility tool for the Steam client that lets games exclusive to Windows run on Linux. It is based on Wine plus additional components.

+10

cheat-engine

cheat-engine/cheat-engine · ★ 19.3K

Cheat Engine is a development environment focused on modding games and applications for personal use. Its repository tags describe it as a memory scanner and debugger.

The all-time top

9 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · ValveSoftware/Proton

    Proton

    Proton is a compatibility tool for the Steam client that lets games exclusive to Windows run on Linux. It is based on Wine plus additional components.

    33.1K
  2. #2 · cheat-engine/cheat-engine

    cheat-engine

    Cheat Engine is a development environment focused on modding games and applications for personal use. Its repository tags describe it as a memory scanner and debugger.

    19.3K
  3. #3 · bkaradzic/bgfx

    bgfx

    A cross-platform, graphics-API-agnostic rendering library in the 'Bring Your Own Engine/Framework' style: you keep your own engine or framework, and bgfx draws its frames across many graphics APIs and platforms.

    17.6K
  1. 4

    OptiScaler

    11.9Koptiscaler/OptiScaler · C++

    OptiScaler is a Windows tool for PC games that lets you replace the upscaler a game uses (DLSS2+, FSR2+ or XeSS) with a different one, and also manage frame generation — including adding it to DX12 games via the experimental OptiFG.

  2. 5

    Nuklear

    11.5KImmediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear · C

    Nuklear is a minimal-state, immediate-mode graphical user interface toolkit written in ANSI C, designed as a simple embeddable UI that you build into your own application.

  3. 6

    renderdoc

    11.2Kbaldurk/renderdoc · C++

    RenderDoc is a stand-alone, frame-capture based graphics debugger for Vulkan, D3D11, D3D12, OpenGL, and OpenGL ES, used to debug GPU rendering in your own programs.

  4. 7

    crosstl

    1.1KCrossGL/crosstl · Python

    CrossTL is a shader and compute program translator built around CrossGL, an intermediate representation (IR) language that bridges graphics APIs, GPU-compute platforms, and systems-language targets.

  5. 8

    gta4-rtx

    795xoxor4d/gta4-rtx · C++

    A compatibility mod that lets Grand Theft Auto IV be modded with NVIDIA's RTX Remix, adding real-time path tracing on top of the original game. It is explicitly not a remaster.

  6. 9

    wowdecomp

    327SatyPardus/wowdecomp · C++

    wowdecomp is a C++ decompilation of the World of Warcraft 3.3.5a client (Wow.exe, build 12340, June 2010), reconstructing the original game executable function by function from its binary.

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