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Microsoft DirectX 10 logo wordmark. A major update to DirectX API, DirectX 10 ships with and is only available with Windows Vista (launched in late 2006) and later. Previous versions of Windows such as Windows XP are not able to run DirectX 10-exclusive applications.
Direct3D 12 version 1809 – Windows 10 October 2018 Update (version 1809) brings support for DirectX Raytracing so GPUs can benefit from its API. Direct3D 12 version 1903 – Windows 10 May 2019 Update (version 1903) brings support for DirectML and NPUs. [135] [136] DirectML can support both compute shaders and tensor shaders. [citation needed]
The EXE also performs system checks and will download and install any DirectX upgrades that may be necessary. The files produced by DX Studio use standard XML to describe the entire scenes. The files also contain all the resources needed to display the 3D world, compressed into the same file using standard ZIP compatible algorithms.
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... Oh well, thanks for the info anyway.
Windows XP: 02.1: 14.4: Driver updates and support stopped at AMD Catalyst 14.4 for video cards with support up to DirectX 11 on Hardware, and 10.2 for DirectX 9.0c cards. [citation needed] Windows Vista: 7.2: 13.12: Driver updates and support stopped at AMD Catalyst 13.12 for video cards with support up to DirectX 11. [citation needed] Windows ...
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 ...
Shader Model 2.0b — Radeon X700–X850 shader model, DirectX 9.0b; Shader Model 3.0 — Radeon X1000 and GeForce 6, DirectX 9.0c; Shader Model 4.0 — Radeon HD 2000 and GeForce 8, DirectX 10; Shader Model 4.1 — Radeon HD 3000 and GeForce 200, DirectX 10.1; Shader Model 5.0 — Radeon HD 5000 and GeForce 400, DirectX 11
Windows Me was targeted specifically at home PC users, and included Internet Explorer 5.5 (which could later be upgraded to Internet Explorer 6), Windows Media Player 7 (which could later be upgraded to Windows Media Player 9 Series), DirectX 7 (which could later be upgraded to DirectX 9) and the new Windows Movie Maker software, which provided ...