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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. [35] Changes for DirectX 10 were extensive.
Ironically, .NET Framework 3.0 or greater shipped with a pluggable DirectX 9.0 RGB device RGB9RAST for WPF compatibility runs well on Windows 98 or later, while WPF only supports Windows XP SP2 or later. Windows XP Built-in Screensavers, rewritten from previous OpenGL 1.1 to DirectX 8.1, are also statically-linked with a pluggable software device.
DirectX Diagnostic Tool also displays information about the installed DirectPlay Service Provider. In Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows Vista x64 edition, Windows 7 x64 edition, Windows 8 x64 edition and Windows 10 x64 edition, two versions of DirectX Diagnostic Tool are included, a native 64-bit version and a 32-bit version. In ...
DirectX Graphics Infrastructure (DXGI) [1] is a user-mode component of Microsoft Windows (for Windows Vista and above) which provides a mapping between particular graphics APIs such as Direct3D 10.0 and above (known in DXGI parlance as producers) and the graphics kernel, which in turn interfaces with the user-mode Windows Display Driver Model driver.
XAudio2 operates through the XAudio API on the Xbox 360, through DirectSound on Windows XP, and through the low-level audio mixer WASAPI on Windows Vista and higher. The RTM release of the XAudio2 library is included in the March 2008 DirectX SDK , [ 6 ] enabling a programmer with Visual Studio to use XAudio2 in a Windows, Xbox 360 and Windows ...
Windows XP Windows Vista Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 8.1 Windows 10: DirectX 9.0c Unsupported 3DMark Vantage: Futuremark released 3DMark Vantage on April 28, 2008. [17] It is a benchmark based upon DirectX 10, and therefore will only run under Windows Vista (Service Pack 1 is stated as a requirement) and Windows 7.
It's true; Vista requires DirectX 10, and DirectX 10 requires Vista. Any app that requires DX10 means it's a Vista-only game. Essentially, by the way, we're talking about games, and IMO "games" is a better term to use than "apps" in this context. Tempshill 21:46, 6 September 2006 (UTC) I thought 10 was XP also... better check my MS blogs again ...
DirectSound is a deprecated software component of the Microsoft DirectX library for the Windows operating system, superseded by XAudio2.It provides a low-latency interface to sound card drivers written for Windows 95 through Windows XP and can handle the mixing and recording of multiple audio streams.