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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

virtualization, so it cannot use APIs for hardware acceleration, such as DirectX and OpenGL. UTM can be freely downloaded from GitHub, although there is...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

using DirectX 12, Vulkan and OpenGL extensions on Windows and Linux platforms. Windows 10 October 2018 update includes the public release of DirectX Raytracing...

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...

Graphics Runtime (Direct2D, Direct3D 10 Level 9, Direct3D 11, DirectX 11, DXGI 1.1, DirectWrite, and WARP) XPS Document API, XPS Rasterization Service,...

Microsoft Windows. DirectX back-end; older SDL 1.2 uses DirectX 7 by default, while 2.0 defaults to DirectX 9 and can access up to DirectX 12. Quartz back-end...

short-lived DirectX 9 ATI Radeon 9500 Pro at the end of 2002. The Ti4200 still managed to hold its own against several next generation DirectX 9 compliant...

2023-10-18. Wilson, Jason R. (March 31, 2022). "Moore Threads MTT S60 GPU Is China's First Domestic GPU With DirectX Support & Ability To Play eSports Games"....

development of the AVC, HEVC, and VVC video coding standards and created the DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) API/DDI video decoding feature of the Microsoft...

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...

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

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...