The first feature which can highlight is Low-level programming APIs for Direct3D 12, and this feature reduces driver overhead. The next version of DirectX is DirectX 12 and introduces by Microsoft on March 20, 2014, at GDC and officially released with Windows 10 on July 29, 2015. It also has Stereoscopic 3D features for supporting gaming and multimedia videos. This update of DirectX 11 also partially supported Windows 7 with some updates of the Windows 7 platform. The first one was DirectX 11.1 and is compatible with Windows 8 and supports WDDM 1.2 and WDDM 1.2 to increase performance and improve integration features of Direct2D, Direct3D and DirectCompute as well as DirectXMath, XInput and XAudio2 libraries of the XNA framework. Later with the Final Update for Windows Vista in 2009, Direct3D 11 has four updates. The other hardware and API features of version 10.1 are on hold and only add when it is required to increase the functionality of this version. Microsoft also introduces Technical Preview for Direct3D 11. It needs Direct3D 11 supporting hardware for Hardware tessellation and Shader Model 5.0.
You can run this version on different operating systems of the Windows platform, such as Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10. It also has improved multi-threading support, which assists in developing video games and utilizes multi-core processors in a better way, and this multi-threading attracts video game developers. It has many features supported with GPGPU, and if we talk about Direct3D 11, it comes with tessellation support. DirectX 11ĭirectX 11 comes with major changes and very good features and introduces at Gamefest 08 event in Seattle. One more thing was replaced that was DPLAY.DLL with dplayx.dll.
Many changes were done in this version, such as DirectInput of the last version changed withXInput, DirectSound with Cross-platform, Audio Creation tool system, as well as additional supports for hardware acceleration audio. Exclusive versions of DirectX 10 can’t run on an older version of Windows, such as Windows XP. It comes with major updates in DirectX API and compatible with Windows Vista and its later versions.
It was introduced with Shader Model, which has Pixel Shader 2.0 and Vertex Shader 2.0. DirectX 9Īt the time of launching, it was compatible with Windows 98 and Xp, and its launching time was 2002, but later in 2007, it was improved for having compatibility with Windows 2002 or XP. 3D animation, modelling, simulation, game development & others 1.
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