APIs all began with "Direct", such as Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectMusic, DirectPlay, DirectSound, and so forth. The name DirectX was coined as a shorthand...

DirectX Diagnostic Tool (DxDiag) is a diagnostics tool used to test DirectX functionality and troubleshoot video- or sound-related hardware problems....

DirectX Raytracing (DXR) is a feature introduced in Microsoft's DirectX 12 that implements ray tracing, for video graphic rendering. DXR was released...

DirectX Media is a set of multimedia-related APIs for Microsoft Windows complementing DirectX. Retained Mode was used by a variety of applications and...

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...

personal computer components, using variations of Microsoft Windows and DirectX as its operating system to support games and media playback, and featuring...

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...

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...

application programming interface (API) for Microsoft Windows. Part of DirectX, Direct3D is used to render three-dimensional graphics in applications...

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...

DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) is a Microsoft API specification for the Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 platforms that allows video decoding to be...

computer. Four engineers from Microsoft's DirectX team—Kevin Bachus, Seamus Blackley, Ted Hase and DirectX team leader Otto Berkes, began to envision...

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...

generated that input While DirectInput forms a part of the DirectX library, it has not been significantly revised since DirectX 8 (2001–2002). Microsoft...

all-inclusive. Direct3D DirectDraw DirectInput DirectMusic DirectPlay DirectShow DirectSound DirectX Media Objects DirectX plugin DirectX Video Acceleration...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

GPUs of the GeForce 700 series fully support DirectX 11.0. All GeForce 700 series card also support DirectX 12.0 with feature level 11_0. Dynamic parallelism...

DirectX Graphics Infrastructure (DXGI) is a user-mode component of Microsoft Windows (for Windows Vista and above) which provides a mapping between particular...

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...

held by Nintendo Mars Direct, a proposal for a crewed mission to Mars DIRECT, a proposed space shuttle-derived launch vehicle DirectX, a proprietary dynamic...

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...

DirectDraw (ddraw.dll) is an API that used to be a part of Microsoft's DirectX API. DirectDraw is used to accelerate rendering of 2D graphics in applications...

libraries have different preferences here. OpenGL prefers column vectors, DirectX row vectors. The decision determines from which side the point vectors...

3 was one of the first game engines to support multithreading. It used DirectX 9 as its baseline graphics API, simplifying its rendering code. The first...

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...

Capcom Introduce Lost Planet - The First Directx 10 Game Demo - NVIDIA". nvidia.com. Retrieved 25 June 2016. "DirectX 10 Benchmarking - Lost Planet: Extreme...

2018. "DirectX 12 Ultimate Game Ready Driver Released; Also Includes Support for 9 New G-SYNC Compatible Gaming Monitors". "Announcing DirectX 12 Ultimate"...