APIs all began with "Direct", such as Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectMusic, DirectPlay, DirectSound, and so forth. The name DirectX was coined as a shorthand...
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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....
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DirectX Raytracing (DXR) is a feature introduced in Microsoft's DirectX 12 that implements ray tracing, for video graphic rendering. DXR was released...
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DirectX Media is a set of multimedia-related APIs for Microsoft Windows complementing DirectX. Retained Mode was used by a variety of applications and...
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In computer music and professional audio creation, a DirectX plugin is a software processing component that can be loaded as a plugin into host applications...
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Managed DirectX (MDX) is Microsoft's deprecated API for DirectX programming on .NET Framework. MDX can be used from any language on .NET Framework (via...
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Comparison of OpenGL and Direct3D (redirect from DirectX versus OpenGL)
include: DirectX 9 and OpenGL 2 circa 2004; DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3 circa 2008; DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4 circa 2011; and most recently, DirectX 12 circa...
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Xbox (console) (redirect from DirectX Box)
personal computer components, using variations of Microsoft Windows and DirectX as its operating system to support games and media playback, and featuring...
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Direct3D (redirect from DirectX 9.3)
application programming interface (API) for Microsoft Windows. Part of DirectX, Direct3D is used to render three-dimensional graphics in applications...
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DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) is a Microsoft API specification for the Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 platforms that allows video decoding to be...
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Intel Arc (section DirectX 9 compatibility)
generation, Arc only includes direct hardware support for the DirectX 11 & 12 and Vulkan graphics APIs, with the older DirectX 9 & 10 and OpenGL APIs being...
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DirectPlay is part of Microsoft's DirectX API. It is a network communication library intended for computer game development, although it can be used for...
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DirectX Graphics Infrastructure (DXGI) is a user-mode component of Microsoft Windows (for Windows Vista and above) which provides a mapping between particular...
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Shading language (redirect from DirectX Shader Assembly Language)
shader language for DirectX 9 and higher and Xbox game consoles. It is related to Nvidia's Cg, but is only supported by DirectX and Xbox. HLSL programs...
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2003, Microsoft updated DirectX to DirectX 9.0b, which enabled the Pixel Shader 2.x (Extended) profile for ATI's Radeon X series and NVIDIA's GeForce...
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GeForce 700 series (section Microsoft DirectX support)
safer for use with workloads that rely on ECC. The series also supports DirectX 12 on Windows 10. Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR) was added to Kepler GPUs...
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High-Level Shader Language (redirect from DirectX Intermediate Language)
Unreleased 3dfx Rampage, DirectX 8 PS 1.1 — GeForce 3, DirectX 8 PS 1.2 — 3Dlabs Wildcat VP, DirectX 8.1 PS 1.3 — GeForce 4 Ti, DirectX 8.1 PS 1.4 — Radeon...
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1982. It is built on an upgraded graphics rendering engine, showcasing DirectX 10 features in Windows Vista and was marketed by Microsoft as the most...
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and later versions. DirectCompute is part of the Microsoft DirectX collection of APIs, and was initially released with the DirectX 11 API but runs on graphics...
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generated that input While DirectInput forms a part of the DirectX library, it has not been significantly revised since DirectX 8 (2001–2002). Microsoft...
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Graphics Runtime (Direct2D, Direct3D 10 Level 9, Direct3D 11, DirectX 11, DXGI 1.1, DirectWrite, and WARP) XPS Document API, XPS Rasterization Service,...
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(GFxxx): DirectX 11.0, OpenGL 4.6, Shader Model 5.0, CUDA 2.x, OpenCL 1.1 Architecture Kepler (GKxxx): DirectX 11.2, OpenGL 4.6, Shader Model 5.0, CUDA 3.x, OpenCL...
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2010-12-02. "INTRODUCING 3DMARK TIME SPY DIRECTX 12 BENCHMARK TEST". Retrieved 23 June 2016. "3DMARK TIME SPY - DIRECTX 12 BENCHMARK TEST AVAILABLE NOW". Retrieved...
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MT Framework (section MT Framework 1.x)
Capcom Introduce Lost Planet - The First Directx 10 Game Demo - NVIDIA". nvidia.com. Retrieved 25 June 2016. "DirectX 10 Benchmarking - Lost Planet: Extreme...
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its flagship product line and the direct competitor to Nvidia's GeForce. The original Radeon DDR was ATI's first DirectX 7 3D accelerator, introducing their...
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Windows 10 (redirect from Windows 10.x)
is no longer bundled. Windows 10 includes DirectX 12, alongside WDDM 2.0. Unveiled March 2014 at GDC, DirectX 12 aims to provide "console-level efficiency"...
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new Direct3D 10.x and 11 texture formats. Initial DDS support landed in GIMP 2.10.10 released on April 4, 2019. DirectX Direct3D DirectDraw DXTn (S3 Texture...
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and VMware Fusion. vvvv currently supports DirectX 9 (including PS 3 and VS 3 shader techniques) and DirectX 11. In April 1, 2020, vvvv gamma, a new version...
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Graphics pipeline (redirect from Pixel pipeline (DirectX))
libraries have different preferences here. OpenGL prefers column vectors, DirectX row vectors. The decision determines from which side the point vectors...
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