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  2. DirectX - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Talk:DirectX/Archive 1 - Wikipedia

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    DirectX 9.0L is not for XP, and it doesn't support SM 4.0. It's Vista only - the Aero Glass interface runs on it, for example. Really? I had no idea. Seeing as DirectX 9.0L is going to be the final revision of the DirectX 9 API, and DX 10 is a rather large code rewrite, I assumed that DX 9.0L was gooing to be for XP...

  4. Windows 9x - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft DirectX, a set of standard gaming APIs, stopped being updated on Windows 95 at version 8.0a. [17] It also stopped being updated on Windows 98 and Me after the release of Windows Vista in 2006, making DirectX 9.0c the last version of DirectX to support these operating systems.

  5. 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.

  6. Comparison of Microsoft Windows versions - Wikipedia

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    9.0c (Oct 2006) (optional) It is possible to install the MS-DOS variants 7.0 and 7.1 without the graphics user interface of Windows. If an independent installation of both, DOS and Windows is desired, DOS ought to be installed prior to Windows, at the start of a small partition.

  7. Windows Me - Wikipedia

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    Windows Media Format Runtime and Windows Media Player 9 Series (including Windows Media Encoder 7.1 and the Windows Media 8 Decoding Utility) MSN Messenger 7.0; Windows Installer 2.0; DirectX 9.0c (the latest compatible runtime is from October 2007.) [49].NET Framework 2.0; Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 runtime; Text Services Framework

  8. Talk:DirectX - Wikipedia

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    For example, after the DirectX API (any version) sends a command to your graphics card: 1) DirectX 9 will poll the card to check things like: "has the current command has finished" or "is the card is able to accept more graphics commands", etc. 2) DirectX 10 will wait for interrupts from the graphics card (thus releasing your CPU to do other ...

  9. DirectX 9.0 - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Redirect page. Redirect to: DirectX#DirectX 9; Retrieved from " ...