DirectX 11 At the Gamefest 08 event in Seattle, Microsoft presented Directx 11 to the public. It contained some mainly scheduled characteristics, such as GPGPU support (DirectCompute), tessellation support, which increased multi-threading support to help video game developers in developing games which would better apply multi-core processors. Directx 11 runs on the Windows Vista and Windows 7, as well as future Windows operating systems. Parts of the new API such as multi-threaded resource handling can be supported on Directx 9/10/10.1-class hardware. Besides, hardware tessellation and Shader Model 5.0 require Directx 11 supporting hardware too. Therefore, Microsoft unveiled Technical Preview. Directx 11 is a strict update version of Directx 10.1 with all hardware and API characteristics of version 10.1 are reserved. Generally, new features are seldom added until it is necessary to expose new functionality.

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Nowadays, full-color graphics, video, 3D animation and etc. multimedia elements are widely appeared in our eyes. So how does it come on? Microsoft DirectX, a set of newly developed technologies, which is special designed to make Windows-based computers a perfect platform for operating and displaying application programs in most multimedia elements. DirectX 11 contains security and performance upgrade as well as various new features, which can be realized by using the DirectX 11 APIs. It has become an essential technology in all PC games and 3D application programs. Generally, the terminal installation not only contains the latest but also the previous released DirectX runtime. For example, this may include the bi-monthly D3DX, XInput, and Managed components. However, once been installed, this software cannot be unloaded. It is widely used when we are going to build 3D animation and characters movements’ computer games.

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