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Released on July 10, 2024, version 2.4 added support for Direct3D 8. [26] [27] Released on November 11, 2024, version 2.5 features an overhauled memory and resource management which resulted in VRAM savings up to 1GB in certain games. Direct3D 8 and 9 received support for software cursor. [28]
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.
Sky Diver is a DirectX 11 test aimed at gaming laptops and mid-range PCs that cannot achieve double-digit frame rates in the more demanding Fire Strike test. Night Raid is a DirectX 12 test designed for systems using integrated graphics, such as tablets, laptops, and desktops lacking dedicated graphics hardware. Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 test ...
Memory controller supports 256-bit DDR SDRAM. The "Surround Gaming" support allowed the card to drive three monitors creating a unique level gaming immersion. For example, in a flight simulator or sim racing, the middle monitor could show the windshield while the left and right monitors could display the side views (offering peripheral vision ...
Driver Verifier (Verifier.exe) was first introduced as a command-line utility in Windows 2000; [1] in Windows XP, it gained an easy-to-use graphical user interface, called Driver Verifier Manager, that makes it possible to enable a standard or custom set of settings to select which drivers to test and verify. Each new Windows version has since ...
DirectX 7.0 (released in September, 1999) introduced the .dds texture format [28] and support for transform and lighting hardware acceleration [29] (first available on PC hardware with Nvidia's GeForce 256), as well as the ability to allocate vertex buffers in hardware memory. Hardware vertex buffers represent the first substantive improvement ...
Support for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Linux, macOS; Support for DirectX 9, DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.0 [12] Support for NVIDIA SLI and AMD CrossFire; GPU temperature and clock monitoring; Adaptive hardware tessellation; Dynamic sky with volumetric clouds and tweakable day-night cycle
The Radeon HD 7000 series, codenamed "Southern Islands", is a family of GPUs developed by AMD, [9] and manufactured on TSMC's 28 nm process. [10]The primary competitor of Southern Islands was Nvidia's GeForce 600 series (also manufactured at TSMC), which shipped during Q1 2012, largely due to the immaturity of the 28 nm process.