Directx 12 windows 105/18/2023 ![]() ![]() Windows 7 has a remaining lifetime of just 9 months before Microsoft ends support. The announcement comes as a surprise for a number of reasons probably the biggest is timing. The newer operating system, supported until 2023, is not mentioned once by Microsoft. It is unclear if the games will use DirectX 12 on Windows 7 only, or if the games will also use it on Windows 8.1. DirectX 12 won't become available universally on Windows 7, but only for select games according to Microsoft. Microsoft is "working with a few other game developers" currently according to the blog post. Today, with game patch 8.1.5 for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, Blizzard becomes the first game developer to use DirectX 12 for Windows 7! Now, Windows 7 WoW gamers can run the game using DirectX 12 and enjoy a framerate boost Microsoft ported the user mode Direct3D 12 runtime to Windows 7 in response so the request so that select games can use DirectX 12 on the operating system. DirectX 12 offers advantages, such as low-level programing APIs or multi-GPU support, over previous versions of DirectX. The exclusivity backfired back then as the majority of game developers ignored DirectX 10 and focused on DirectX 9.0 instead which Windows XP supported as well.Īccording to Microsoft's blog post, it was Blizzard and other game companies that wanted to bring DirectX 12 support to their games on Windows 7. When it released Windows Vista in 2006, it made DirectX 10 a Vista exclusive. This was not the first time that Microsoft decided to limit DirectX though. Microsoft decided to make DirectX 12 Windows 10 exclusive which meant that customers who ran Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 were limited to DirectX 11. ![]() The company announced DirectX 12 in 2014 and launched it officially in Windows 10 in 2015. Microsoft releases new versions of DirectX regularly that introduce new features and improvements. DirectX, a set of multimedia APIs used especially in PC games, is included natively in Windows. ![]()
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