Top 10 C# DirectX Projects

Borderless-Gaming

270 5,171 5.5 C#

Play your favorite games in a borderless window; no more time consuming alt-tabs.

Project mention: Bebop v3: a fast, modern replacement to Protocol Buffers | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-12

You can. I use it to persist settings in my app Borderless Gaming https://github.com/Codeusa/Borderless-Gaming

t3

5 3,222 9.9 C#

Tooll 3 is an open source software to create realtime motion graphics.

Project mention: Visual Node Graph with ImGui | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-29

Your requirements are a bit ambiguous, but Tooll checks all those boxes. I used the previous version (Tooll2) but ended up switching to Blender.
https://github.com/tooll3/t3

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ComputeSharp

38 2,537 9.8 C#

A .NET library to run C# code in parallel on the GPU through DX12, D2D1, and dynamically generated HLSL compute and pixel shaders, with the goal of making GPU computing easy to use for all .NET developers! 🚀

Project mention: ILGPU VS ComputeSharp - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/ILGPU | 2023-10-27

Helix Toolkit

1 1,769 7.7 C#

Helix Toolkit is a collection of 3D components for .NET.
Vortice.Windows

5 947 7.3 C#

.NET bindings for Direct3D12, Direct3D11, WIC, Direct2D1, XInput, XAudio, X3DAudio, DXC, Direct3D9 and DirectInput.
WinApi

4 806 0.0 C#

A simple, direct, ultra-thin CLR library for high-performance Win32 Native Interop
DirectX12GameEngine

1 307 0.0 C#

DirectX 12 .NET game engine
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TerraFX

0 264 6.7 C#

A framework for developing multimedia-based applications.
DirectN

0 267 8.1 C#

Direct interop Code for .NET Framework, .NET Core and .NET 5+ : DXGI, WIC, DirectX 9 to 12, Direct2D, Direct Write, Direct Composition, Media Foundation, WASAPI, CodecAPI, GDI, Spatial Audio, DVD, Windows Media Player, UWP DXInterop, WinUI3, etc.
dx12-game-programming

1 258 5.0 C#

DirectX 12 C# samples from Frank D. Luna's book "Introduction to 3D Game Programming with Direct3D 12.0"

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

C# DirectX related posts

Monitor: Taskbar auto-hide but pops up when being inside a borderless windowed game
1 project | /r/OLED_Gaming | 9 Dec 2023
Ascension to Samsung G9 57’
1 project | /r/ultrawidemasterrace | 8 Dec 2023
Dave the diver legion go problems
1 project | /r/DavetheDiverOfficial | 8 Dec 2023
No support for 3440 x 1440?
1 project | /r/TheDayBefore | 7 Dec 2023
Game won't run - Help!
1 project | /r/LegionGo | 6 Dec 2023
Playing in Borderless mode?
1 project | /r/Sims3 | 1 Nov 2023
Get borderless-gaming if you want to set its resolution and make it fullscreen borderless
1 project | /r/harvestmoon | 2 Oct 2023
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Index

What are some of the best open-source DirectX projects in C#? This list will help you:

	Project	Stars
1	Borderless-Gaming	5,171
2	t3	3,222
3	ComputeSharp	2,537
4	Helix Toolkit	1,769
5	Vortice.Windows	947
6	WinApi	806
7	DirectX12GameEngine	307
8	TerraFX	264
9	DirectN	267
10	dx12-game-programming	258