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2. DirectX - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX

   API. Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. Originally, the names of these APIs all began with "Direct", such as Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectMusic, DirectPlay, DirectSound, and so forth.

3. Direct3D - Wikipedia

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   Direct3D is a graphics application programming interface (API) for Microsoft Windows. Part of DirectX, Direct3D is used to render three-dimensional graphics in applications where performance is important, such as games. Direct3D uses hardware acceleration if it is available on the graphics card, allowing for hardware acceleration of the entire ...

4. DirectX Diagnostic Tool - Wikipedia

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   DirectX Diagnostic Tool ( DxDiag) is a diagnostics tool used to test DirectX functionality and troubleshoot video- or sound-related hardware problems. DirectX Diagnostic can save text files with the scan results. These files are often posted in tech forums or attached to support emails in order to give support personnel a better idea of the PC ...

5. DirectX 11 detailed; Vista and DX 10 / 10.1 hardware supported

   www.engadget.com/2008-07-22-directx-11-detailed...

   At its GamesFest event in Redmond today, Microsoft shared the first details of DirectX 11 – the numerically superior successor to DirectX 10.1 – which will feature full support for Windows ...

6. Windows Display Driver Model - Wikipedia

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   Windows Display Driver Model. Windows Display Driver Model ( WDDM, [ 1] initially LDDM as Longhorn Display Driver Model and then WVDDM in times of Windows Vista) is the graphic driver architecture for video card drivers running Microsoft Windows versions beginning with Windows Vista. [ 2]

7. AMD shows off world's first DirectX 11 GPU - Engadget

   www.engadget.com/2009-06-03-amd-shows-off-worlds...

   Another DirectX 11 feature, the compute shader, will enable AMD's DirectX 11 graphics cards to help make Windows 7 run faster in a wide number of applications and in a manner that's completely ...

8. Microsoft warns gamers DirectX 11.1 is Windows 8-only - Engadget

   www.engadget.com/2012-11-13-microsoft-warns...

   We hope there weren't too many PC gamers clinging to Windows 7 for dear life, because Microsoft isn't about to rescue them with a near-term DirectX update. The company's Daniel Moth (and ...

9. Feature levels in Direct3D - Wikipedia

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   In Direct3D 11, the concept of feature levels has been further expanded to run on most downlevel hardware including Direct3D 9 cards with WDDM drivers.. There are seven feature levels provided by D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL structure; levels 9_1, 9_2 and 9_3 (collectively known as Direct3D 11 Level 5) re-encapsulate various features of popular Direct3D 9 cards conforming to Shader Model 2.0, while ...