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2427:" (or MDX for short), and claimed to operate at 98% of performance of the underlying native DirectX APIs. In December 2005, February 2006, April 2006, and August 2006, Microsoft released successive updates to this library, culminating in a beta version called Managed DirectX 2.0. While Managed DirectX 2.0 consolidated functionality that had previously been scattered over multiple assemblies into a single assembly, thus simplifying dependencies on it for software developers, development on this version has subsequently been discontinued, and it is no longer supported. The Managed DirectX 2.0 library expired on October 5, 2006. 483:. The SDK included libraries implementing DirectDraw for bit-mapped graphics, DirectSound for audio, and DirectPlay for communication between players over a network. Furthermore, an extended joystick API already present in Windows 95 was documented for the first time as DirectInput, while a description of how to implement the immediate start of the installation procedure of a software title after inserting its CD-ROM, a feature called AutoPlay, was also part of the SDK. The "Direct" part of the library was so named as these routines bypassed existing core Windows 95 routines and accessed the computer hardware only via a 1059:, which was released in February 2008. This release mainly sets a few more image quality standards for graphics vendors, while giving developers more control over image quality. It also adds support for cube map arrays, separate blend modes per-MRT, coverage mask export from a pixel shader, ability to run pixel shader per sample, access to multi-sampled depth buffers and requires that the video card supports Shader Model 4.1 or higher and 32-bit floating-point operations. Direct3D 10.1 still fully supports Direct3D 10 hardware, but in order to utilize all of the new features, updated hardware is required. 1074: 980: 149: 2376:. Hardware manufacturers have to write these drivers for a particular DirectX version's device driver interface (or DDI), and test each individual piece of hardware to make them DirectX compatible. Some hardware devices have only DirectX compatible drivers (in other words, one must install DirectX in order to use that hardware). Early versions of DirectX included an up-to-date library of all of the DirectX compatible drivers currently available. This practice was stopped however, in favor of the web-based 1677:, that after DirectX 3 was released, Microsoft began developing versions 4 and 5 at the same time. Version 4 was to be a shorter-term release with small features, whereas version 5 would be a more substantial release. The lack of interest from game developers in the features stated for DirectX 4 resulted in it being shelved, and the large amount of documents that already distinguished the two new versions resulted in Microsoft choosing to not re-use version 4 to describe features intended for version 5. 7605: 6693: 43: 6704: 602:

focused initially on game use. As 3D gaming grew game developers were discovering that OpenGL could be used effectively for game development. At that point a "battle" began between supporters of the cross-platform OpenGL and the Windows-only Direct3D. Incidentally, OpenGL was supported at Microsoft by the DirectX team. If a developer chose to use the OpenGL 3D graphics API in

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feature. Direct3D 7 and earlier would work on any version of the DDI, Direct3D 8 requires a minimum DDI level of 6 and Direct3D 9 requires a minimum DDI level of 7. However, the Direct3D 10 runtime in Windows Vista cannot run on older hardware drivers due to the significantly updated DDI, which requires a unified feature set and abandons the use of "cap bits".

582:. A variety of different graphics cards, audio cards, motherboards, CPUs, input devices, games, and other multimedia applications were tested with each beta and final release. The DirectX team also built and distributed tests that allowed the hardware industry to confirm that new hardware designs and driver releases would be compatible with DirectX. 991:(launched in late 2006) and later. Previous versions of Windows such as Windows XP are not able to run DirectX 10-exclusive applications. Rather, programs that are run on a Windows XP system with DirectX 10 hardware simply resort to the DirectX 9.0c code path, the latest available for Windows XP computers. 1325:

achieved consistent performance improvements of up to 70% under DirectX 12, and in some scenarios the AMD outperformed the more powerful Nvidia under DirectX 12. The performance discrepancies may be due to poor Nvidia driver optimizations for DirectX 12, or even hardware limitations of the card which

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processors. Parts of the new API such as multi-threaded resource handling can be supported on Direct3D 9/10/10.1-class hardware. Hardware tessellation and Shader Model 5.0 require Direct3D 11 supporting hardware. Microsoft has since released the Direct3D 11 Technical Preview. Direct3D 11 is a strict

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DirectX 9.0c was an update to the original, and has been continuously changed over the years affecting its compatibility with older operating systems. As of January 2007, Windows 2000 and Windows XP became the minimum required operating systems. This means support was officially dropped for Windows

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with older drivers, meaning that newer versions of the APIs were designed to interoperate with older drivers written against a previous version's DDI. The application programmer had to query the available hardware capabilities using a complex system of "cap bits" each tied to a particular hardware

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in mid-1996. Since Windows 95 itself was still new and few games had been released for it, Microsoft engaged in heavy promotion of DirectX to developers who were generally distrustful of Microsoft's ability to build a gaming platform in Windows. Alex St. John, the evangelist for DirectX, staged an

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both shipped with DirectX, as has every version of Windows released since. The SDK is available as a free download. While the runtimes are proprietary, closed-source software, source code is provided for most of the SDK samples. Starting with the release of Windows 8 Developer Preview, DirectX SDK

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to bring 3D graphics programming into the mainstream of application programming. Besides it could also be used for 2D graphics and imaging and was controlled by the Architectural Review Board (ARB) which included Microsoft. Direct3D was intended to be a Microsoft controlled alternative to OpenGL,

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adds level 11_0 and "10 Level 9" - a subset of the Direct3D 10 API designed to run on Direct3D 9 hardware, which has three feature levels (9_1, 9_2 and 9_3) grouped by common capabilities of "low", "med" and "high-end" video cards; the runtime directly uses Direct3D 9 DDI provided in all WDDM

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Various releases of Windows have included and supported various versions of DirectX, allowing newer versions of the operating system to continue running applications designed for earlier versions of DirectX until those versions can be gradually phased out in favor of newer APIs, drivers, and

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In 2002, Microsoft released DirectX 9 with support for the use of much longer shader programs than before with pixel and vertex shader version 2.0. Microsoft has continued to update the DirectX suite since then, introducing Shader Model 3.0 in DirectX 9.0c, released in August 2004.

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DirectX 9 had a significant impact on game development. Many games from the mid 2000s to early 2010s were developed using DirectX 9 and it became a standard target for developers. Even today, some games still use DirectX 9 as an option for older or less powerful hardware.

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One of the key features introduced in DirectX 9 was Shader Model 2.0, which included Pixel Shader 2.0 and Vertex Shader 2.0. These allowed for more complex and realistic graphics rendering. It also brought much needed performance improvements through better

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as its logo but Microsoft asked the team to change the logo. Management did not agree to the project as they were already writing off Windows as a gaming platform, but the three committed towards this project's development. Their rebellious nature led

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superset of Direct3D 10.1 — all hardware and API features of version 10.1 are retained, and new features are added only when necessary for exposing new functionality. This helps to keep backwards compatibility with previous versions of DirectX.

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Introduced by Microsoft in 2002, DirectX 9 was a significant release in the DirectX family. It brought many important features and enhancements to the graphics capabilities of Windows. At the time of its release, it supported

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applications for visualization and graphics tasks such as CAD/CAM engineering. As Direct3D is the most widely publicized component of DirectX, it is common to see the names "DirectX" and "Direct3D" used interchangeably.

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like geometry realizations. It also added swap chain composition, which allows some elements of the scene to be rendered at lower resolutions and then composited via hardware overlay with other parts rendered at higher

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SharpDX, which is an open source project delivering the full DirectX API for .NET on all Windows platforms, allowing the development of high performance game, 2D and 3D graphics rendering as well as real-time sound

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Most of the work by the three was done among other assigned projects starting near the end of 1994. Within four months and with input from several hardware manufacturers, the team had developed the first set of

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Windows needs to support; ... – Page flipping – Vertical blank synchronization – Tight sound mixing – Tight synchronization of sound and video events – Raw blting performance – Ability to set graphic mode

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Windows XP SP2 and newer include DirectX 9.0c, but may require a newer DirectX runtime redistributable installation for DirectX 9.0c applications compiled with the February 2005 DirectX 9.0 SDK or newer.

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Multiadapter support will feature in DirectX 12 allowing developers to utilize multiple GPUs on a system simultaneously; multi-GPU support was previously dependent on vendor implementations such as

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renders sound in software on the CPU. The DirectPlay DPLAY.DLL was also removed and was replaced with dplayx.dll; games that rely on this DLL must duplicate it and rename it to dplay.dll.

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Microsoft unveiled DirectX 11 at the Gamefest 08 event in Seattle. The Final Platform Update launched for Windows Vista on October 27, 2009, which was a week after the initial release of

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are hidden from the application if WDDM drivers are installed. This is the only API available if there are only XP graphic drivers (XDDM) installed, after an upgrade to Vista for example.

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Periodic hybrid 32-bit/64-bit updates, starting from October 2004, were released bimonthly until August 2007, and quarterly thereafter. The last update was released in June 2010

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DirectX 11.3 was announced along with DirectX 12 at GDC and released in 2015. It is meant to complement DirectX 12 as a higher-level alternative. It is included with Windows 10.

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In March 2018, DirectX Raytracing (DXR) was announced, capable of real-time ray-tracing on supported hardware, and the DXR API was added in the Windows 10 October 2018 update.

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which can reduce driver overhead. Developers are now able to implement their own command lists and buffers to the GPU, allowing for more efficient resource utilization through

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etc. Many of these libraries are cross-platform or have open codebases. There are also alternative implementations that aim to provide the same API, such as the one in

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APIs (XInput, XACT etc.) have not shipped as part of Windows. Developers are expected to redistribute the runtime components along with their games or applications.

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computers that were not tested with the WinG interface which came bundled with the game, it crashed so frequently on many desktop systems that parents had flooded

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page claims that the registry always has been in the x.xx.xx.xxxx format. Therefore, when the above table lists a version as '4.09.00.0904' Microsoft's

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support will work in a similar manner to previous versions of DirectX where frames are rendered alternately across linked GPUs of similar compute-power.

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St. John recognized the resistances for game development under Windows would be a limitation, and recruited two additional engineers, Craig Eisler and

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DirectX Diagnostics (DxDiag): A tool for diagnosing and generating reports on components related to DirectX, such as audio, video, and input drivers

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on the CPU, or combining AMD and NVIDIA cards. However, elaborate mixed multi-GPU setups requires significantly more attentive developer support.

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Microsoft revealed DirectX 12 Ultimate in March 2020. DirectX 12 Ultimate will unify to a common library on both Windows 10 computers and the

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were extensive. Many former parts of DirectX API were deprecated in the latest DirectX SDK and are preserved for compatibility only:

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driver-update system, which allowed users to download only the drivers relevant to their hardware, rather than the entire library.

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tool (version 4.09.0000.0900 and higher) use the x.xx.xxxx.xxxx format for version numbers. However, the DirectX and Windows XP

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standing in for the particular API names) and soon became the name of the collection. When Microsoft later set out to develop a

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It is possible to install the October/November 2007 runtime on 98/98 SE and the February 2010 runtime on Me after this version.

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have been built on top of some parts of DirectX, such as Managed Direct3D and the XNA graphics library on top of Direct3D 9.

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from MS-DOS to DirectX, free of charge, with id retaining all publishing rights to the game. Carmack agreed, and Microsoft's

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will allow DirectX to view graphics cards in SLI or CrossFireX as a single GPU and use the combined resources; whereas

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The first version of DirectX was released in September 1995 as the Windows Game SDK. Its DirectDraw component was the

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had found that the Windows environment did not provide the necessary features which were available under MS-DOS using

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DirectX Media Objects: Support for streaming objects such as encoders, decoders, and effects (Deprecated in favor of

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Lion King software, for example, is a WinToon app. ... Like WinToon, this example uses WinG for drawing on the DIB.

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routines or direct hardware access. There were also strong fears of compatibility; a notable case of this was from

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In order to achieve backwards compatibility, DirectX in Windows Vista contains several versions of Direct3D:

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No Microsoft product including the latest XNA releases provides DirectX 10 support for the .NET Framework.

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This was a very minor update to 3.0a that fixed a cosmetic problem with the Japanese version of Windows 95

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was made available on December 11, 2006, as a free download for Windows XP. Unlike the DirectX runtime,

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Last version supporting Windows 95 and last version to have software rendering support in dxdiag.exe

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http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DirectX-Developer-Blog/DirectX-Evolving-Microsoft-s-Graphics-Platform

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had been in discussions with various game developers asking how likely they would be to bring their

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for use in coding. Originally, the runtimes were only installed by games or explicitly by the user.

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in August 2015 revealed slight performance regressions in DirectX 12 over DirectX 11 mode for the

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APIs such as Direct3D and DirectSound need to interact with hardware, and they do this through a

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DirectX Transform for web interactivity, and Direct3D Retained Mode for higher level 3D graphics

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The DirectX team faced the challenging task of testing each DirectX release against an array of

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This version is for the down level operating systems (Windows 98, Windows Me and Windows 2000)

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The primary feature highlight for the new release of DirectX was the introduction of advanced

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did not launch with DirectX, but DirectX was included with Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2.

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The performance improvements of DirectX 12 on the Xbox are not as substantial as on the PC.

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will allow GPUs from different vendors to be utilized by DirectX, such as supplementing the

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in August 1996, the first published DirectX game. Microsoft promoted the game heavily with

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The other approach for DirectX in managed languages is to use third-party libraries like:

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Direct3D 10.1 is an incremental update of Direct3D 10.0 which shipped with, and required,

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was optimized for DirectX 11 serial execution; however, the exact cause remains unclear.

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controllers or standard WM_INPUT window message processing for keyboard and mouse input)

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and other ninth-generation Xbox consoles. Among the new features in Ultimate includes

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system (XACT) and additionally lost support for hardware accelerated audio, since the

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initial has been carried forward in the naming of APIs designed for the Xbox such as

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Direct3D (the 3D graphics API within DirectX) is widely used in the development of

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12 only for Windows 7 SP1, via a dedicated source code package for app developers

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support to assist video game developers in developing games that better utilize

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A major update to DirectX API, DirectX 10 ships with and is only available with

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platforms. Originally, the names of these APIs all began with "Direct", such as

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In 2002, Microsoft released a version of DirectX compatible with the Microsoft

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DirectX 4 was never released. Raymond Chen of Microsoft explained in his book,

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98 and Windows Me. As of August 2024, DirectX 9.0c is still regularly updated.

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programming interface. Due to numerous incompatible graphics drivers from new

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SlimDX, an open source library for DirectX programming on the .NET Framework

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In a console-specific version, DirectX was used as a basis for Microsoft's

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Available as a beta for Windows 2000 that would install on Windows NT 4.0

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capabilities, and better utilization of GPU resources. It also introduced

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in redistributable binary form, along with accompanying documentation and

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exclusive. Last version to have built-in RGB software rendering support

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was the first publicly available game to utilize DirectX 12. Testing by

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DirectX 2.0 became a built-in component of Windows with the releases of

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Craig Eisler's blog post about the frenzy to build DirectX 1 through 5

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This update includes a fix to DirectShow on Windows 2000 (Quartz.dll)

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games to Windows 95, and found the responses mostly negative, since

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to indicate that the console was based on DirectX technology. The

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DMOs have been superseded by Media Foundation Transforms (MFTs).

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exclusive. This is last version that runs on 486 or older CPU.

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Microsoft distributes debugging tool for DirectX called "PIX".

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support for gaming and video. DirectX 11.1 was also partially

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API (Deprecated since DirectX 8 in favor of XAudio2 and XACT3)

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To get more developers on board DirectX, Microsoft approached

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for increased performance, features improved integration of

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Collection of multimedia related APIs on Microsoft platforms

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are trying to reimplement DirectX under the name "ReactX".

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Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2, through the

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Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, through the

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was coined as a shorthand term for all of these APIs (the

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The State of DirectX 10 - Image Quality & Performance

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In 2019 Microsoft announced the arrival of DirectX 12 to

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DirectX has been confirmed to be present in Microsoft's

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led the porting project. The first game was released as

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for accelerated video playback (Deprecated in favor of

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independent software interface to graphics hardware by

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Windows 10, Variable Rate Shading (VRS) support added

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will provide two distinct API patterns to developers.

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general-purpose computing on graphics processing units

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drivers. Feature level 11_1 has been introduced with

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