In the Shader Debugger, it is possible to copy register and variable data to the clipboard. The Summary pane has a new Direct3D Information section, that shows details about what Direct3D capabilities are present on the computer. This change makes legacy data-type names equivalent to the new version-less data-type names.
Therefore, you can use either legacy or version-less names. However, your code will be cleaner and easier to maintain if you use the version-less names. Therefore, you are no longer required to use D3d New intrinsic functions have been added for better debugging support.
Left-Hand-Side typecasting is now illegal and will cause a compile error. Documentation Enhancements The June DirectX SDK includes the following documentation enhancements: Added links to descriptions of data types for parameters and return values to help developers locate related types.
Added additional header and lib information to reference pages for APIs implemented in DirectX samples. Visual Studio Path Registration Sometimes Fails In the June release, the DirectX SDK installer will attempt to automatically register the executable, include, and library path settings needed for compilation of samples and other DirectX programs.
In some circumstances, however, automatic registration fails and, therefore, attempts to include DirectX SDK headers result in errors. To work around this issue, manually add the proper path registration to Visual Studio. As a result, you must have Visual Studio installed in order to compile the Samples Content Exporter.
You can also select documents to download from the MSDN Online content publication web site MSDN cloud to your computer for viewing when a connection to the Internet is unavailable or undesirable. You can access this functionality from the Help Library Manager. The first time you click a Help shortcut, you will be asked to confirm that you wish to connect to the Internet to view documentation in the MSDN cloud. If you wish to view documentation when a connection to the Internet is unavailable, you can import documentation sets books from the MSDN cloud and install these books to your computer.
You can then switch to Offline Mode to view content on your computer by default. To import content to your local computer for viewing in offline mode, select "Install Content from online" in Help Library Manager. To remove imported content from your local computer, select "Remove content" in Help Library Manager.
If you import content to your local computer, use Help Library Manager to specify, "I want to use local help" to switch to Offline Mode. Direct2D Documentation In the June release, the Direct2D documentation is incorrectly marked preliminary and subject to change.
As far as Windows gaming goes, Windows XP was probably left behind way back in when Vista was released. One of the main selling points of Windows Vista was that gamers simply had to upgrade because of the integration of DirectX 10 into the new operating system.
So what do you do if you want to use DirectX 10 on XP but it was never officially released by Microsoft? There was an unofficial attempt to create a DirectX 10 distribution that enabled you to get some of the benefits the update brings.
Installation is straightforward and simply a few clicks of the Next button. During install a small list of tested games is shown. Although the list is in Russian, the first listed games are known to work pictured , the second is partially working and the last is tested and not working games. A number of stability fixes and tweaks are included as well as a fix that previously caused the installer to trigger alerts in antivirus software.
Like the previous package, this is another standalone executable and everything is self contained inside the installer. Not all games are going to run smoothly while you have these patches installed, even if they worked fine before. This seems to be a newer beta version or fork of that tool, is free to use and a portable executable. You can even try and turn off DirectX 10 and 11 in Windows Vista or Windows 7 if there is a specific need to do so.
Direct 9 was superb in quality, however using Direct X 10 when I saw it in the PC of my friend, it was comparably amazing. If you want to know more about all the versions of DirectX, you may visit this Wikipedia page. If you are a hardcore gamer or a multimedia enthusiast, then you will love every bit of the new versions of DirectX. If you are still using Windows XP, just update its DirectX to the latest version and see the difference yourself. The same thing applies to Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.
While DirectX takes care of both display and audio, there are three major features of DirectX that you may enable or disable as per your requirement.
For optimum performance, all three of these features should be enabled. To enable or disable these features, follow the steps below:. Please note that if you have multiple graphics cards installed in your PC, there will be multiple display tabs for each graphics card. You can enable or disable DirectX features for each graphics card separately. From Windows 8 onwards, Microsoft is not distributing DirectX separately. If you want to update DirectX, you will need to enable Windows Updates.
DirectX 12 does not have a manual standalone setup which can be downloaded separately.
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