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Windows 7 includes a new version of DirectX, the software behind the eye-popping 3-D visuals and immersive sound effects found in many of today's PC games. DirectX 11 includes numerous improvements. It's designed to be more efficient, leverage the power of today's multi-core processors, and provide support for sophisticated shading and texturing techniques such as tessellation. The result: smoother 3-D animation, and graphics more lifelike and nuanced than ever before.
DirectX is a free API collection
(application programming interface) developed by Microsoft that is designed to
grant the highest quality to multimedia content for Windows systems. Especially
thought to be used for games, benchmarks show that the latest DirectX
11 sharply increases its performance, being able to reproduce high quality
graphics on Windows-based computers.
In order to take advantage of the
new updated multi-thread processors and powerful graphic cards, there are new
complements included in this software. DirectX includes advanced graphical
techniques such as bump mapping and tessellation, which take models made with
triangles and divide them into small parts. This way 3D models are made
more complex, assisted by the processor, without wasting many resources in
the process. This tessellation technique can be applied to all elements within
a graphic environment, resolving the claim of the main graphic card
manufacturers.
Thanks to the new multi-threaded
CPU, the multiple instructions of the APIs are optimized for working many
processes at the same time without a bottleneck, mostly depending on the
capacity of your hardware. DirectX 11 has the high quality jump that the
previous DirectX 9 and 10 couldn’t due to hardware and operating system
limitations. According to the latest tests, the hardware's usage is
optimized, with an increase of 20% in its performance.
Several APIs in just a package:
Besides adding new graphical
effects such as bump and displacement mapping, DirectX includes many APIs such
as DirectSound, DirectDraw or Direct3D in different editions. Each component
fulfills a different function in order to bring a complete multimedia
experience to Windows environments and even multi-player features through an
Internet connection. For example, DirectSound is one of the main components of
DirectX that uses your hardware in order to offer advanced audio and video
quality.
From all the previous editions,
some characteristics have disappeared or have been implemented in just one
element. In this sense, the update to the last version of DirectX is very
recommendable. The updated tools provide a proper hardware acceleration
for low-end compatible graphic cards that enhance the operations with
multimedia editors and players. This feature is granted thanks to the creation
of DirectCompute, which enhances GPU processes.
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An
example of tessellation in a racing game
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DirectX 11.0 Features:
Check the main features of
DirectX before the download:
·DirectCompute takes advantage of the low-end graphic processors for
granting better results than with similar software
·Enhanced functionalities with multi-threaded processors that allow developers to
increase the performance of games and visual applications
·New advanced graphic techniques like tessellation that help producers
save resources, driving operations to the computer’s multi-core CPU and give
better results at rendering
·Especially designed for supporting advanced video and audio applications, grating high quality results
·Includes many different APIs like DirectX Media which accelerates
content from different media sources like web browsers or video player
applications
In case you want to get more
information about DirectX before you download it, you are free to check the
developer’s website. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows7/products/features/directx-11
System Requirements:
These are the minimum system
requirements for downloading this essential component on your computer:
·Operating System: Windows 7 for recent versions or further
·Processor: 1GHz CPU or faster
·Memory: 1GB RAM for 32-bit version or 2GB for 64-bit
·HDD: 1 MB free space
·GPU compatible
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