Direct X 11

DirectX 11 

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Years ago, there was a war between companies to decide which 3D API would end up on top. Microsoft’s DirectX API came out on the top of that battle. As a result, many mainstream games rely on DirectX functionality for you to experience their full effect. Some even require you to have DirectX in order to play them at all. So with each new version of DirectX, the world of gaming changes immeasurably.

With the new DirectX 11, Microsoft has updated their DirectX API with the newest trends in the world of the video card GPU, where many of the most important gaming visual calculations are done. But what are some of the specific features that this new version of DirectX allows?

DirectX now directly supports the use of tiling, which is the using of a pattern of figures in order to cover an area without any gaps or overlaps with other figures. While there was a work around that involved a high level of detail in tiling before, with the implementation of tiling directly into the DirectX API, the function can be used with greater speed and fewer memory resources, helping to make it much more efficient.

One of the other most important advances of DirectX 11 is the fact that it has finally adopted the multiple core processor approach, allowing computers with multiple core processors to have a vast improvement in visual processing speed over the single core predecessors. With extremely fine control over each of the threads, the developer can fine tune their games to ensure they run with the maximum efficiency for their individual needs.

Unfortunately for users of the older Windows operating systems, DirectX 11 will not be available for you. It will only be available for users of the Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems. For those of you still using Windows XP, you can always rely on DirectX 10 for XP. This will be a definite improvement over the DirectX 9.0c, which came with Windows XP SP3. Users of even older versions of Windows will have to rely on DirectX 7.0 or DirectX 8.0a.

Overall, you have to be impressed with the progress that Microsoft continues to make with its DirectX API. They have helped to take gaming to new levels and continue to build upon each of their releases, adding more and more functionality to every generation of the DirectX API.

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