DirectX is a necessary software component for nearly all multimedia-related tasks on Microsoft Windows computers, and it has been necessary ever since Windows 95 was released. DirectX version 9.0c was ...

Microsoft has released the beta of its first major revision of DirectX since DirectX 8 was released in late 2000. Like DX8, which introduced support for the programmable shader effects that were a ...

Looking for DirectX download link for Windows 11/10? You can download & update/install DirectX using the web installer from Microsoft, run Windows Update or use the ...

You know the feeling you get when you settle down for a nice match of Quake and wind up playing Driver Update instead? Well if Dean Lester, General Manager of Windows graphics and gaming technologies, ...

DirectX is the secret sauce that allows most of the best PC games to run. It solves a problem for developers by offering a standardized solution to communicate instructions to your graphics card, and ...

We've been waiting for the first DirectX 10-capable game to appear, anything really. Windows Vista has been available for almost half a year, and we've been wasting our GeForce 8800 GTX's precious GPU ...