If you’re a Windows 7 gamer refusing to upgrade to Windows 10, Microsoft has some exciting DirectX 12 news for you. The company announced that DirectX 12 is finally making the jump from Windows 10 to ...

Gamers stubbornly hanging on to Windows 7 and refusing to upgrade to Windows 10 may soon be able to play ray tracing-enabled titles on Microsoft’s older platform. The company is expanding its efforts ...

Gamers who remain on Windows 7 can now play World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth with the added boost of DirectX 12. Microsoft announced that Blizzard would be the first game developer to offer ...

According to a reply from an engineer on Microsoft's Developer Network forum, DirectX 11.1 will be available exclusively for flavors of Windows 8 only. There are apparently no plans to release 11.1 ...

AMD has told Gamespot that Huddy has "misspoke". "There have been reports based on a video of Richard Huddy of AMD making speculative comments around DirectX 12 support on versions of Windows," the ...

I just setup a Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit low-end HP box and it's been working fine for a few days. I then installed the 2-3 year old Flight Simulator X. Well, it installed an oldish version of ...

Even as Windows 7 is gearing up to lose official support from Microsoft in January, the company is adding a new feature to lend a hand to game developers. In a post on the DirectX blog this week, ...

Here's another pin for your Windows 8 voodoo doll: Neowin reports that DirectX 11.1 will be exclusive to Windows 8. And while DirectX 11 was initially a Windows 7 exclusive that eventually found its ...

The Aero desktop effect in Windows 7 (or, more specifically, the Desktop Windows Manager, also known as the Desktop Windows Manager) will make use of the DirectX 10.1 API in order to improve ...

The latest flavor of the API suite that enables 3D animation and other multimedia effects remains exclusive to Windows 8 as Microsoft has no plans to port it over to Windows 7. Lance Whitney is a ...

Microsoft has historically helped push adoption of new OSes along by locking gaming features - like new version of DirectX - to the latest version of Windows. DirectX 12 and Windows 10 have been no ...