Directx 9 windows 7: DirectX 9 Software Development Kit 2010/2011. Free download provided for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows.
As of today, IE 10 for Windows 7 has been officially released. IE10 for Windows 7 includes portions of the DirectX 11.1 runtime for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 via KB 2670838.
Full technical details of what’s included in KB 2670838 are covered on Microsoft Docs. The primary difference between the prerelease and the final version is that WARP supports Feature Level 11.0 with the updated runtime.
See DirectX 11.1 and Windows 7 for some additional notes about KB 2670838 as it impacts PIX for Windows, the debug runtime, and VS 2012 Graphics Diagnostics. The key issue is that the legacy DirectX SDK (June 2010) release version of the Debug Runtime is not compatible with KB 2670838. You can resolve this by installing the Windows 8.x or 10 SDK standalone, VS 2012 or later, or the VS 2012 or later Remote Debugging Tools.
Note: If you have the prerelease of either IE10 or KB 2670838 installed, you should update your system. Windows Update will be offering an update soon, but you can manually install it as well.
DirectX 11.1 was also partially backported to Windows 7, via the Windows 7 platform update. DirectX 11.2 is included in Windows 8.1 (including the RT version) and Windows Server 2012 R2. It added some new features to Direct2D like geometry realizations. The Windows 7.1A SDK does not include samples, so if you are trying to get those legacy samples you should set up a fresh machine or VM to install the original standalone Windows 7.1 SDK, then copy out the desired files. Windows SDK for Windows 7 and.NET Framework 4.0 (v7.1) is now available. Interestingly, the name Xbox also comes from DirectX as Xbox uses the technologies introduced in DirectX. However, DirectX is installed and included in all versions of Windows, including Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 10.
IE11: There is an IE11 Preview for Windows 7 now available. It requires KB 2670838 as well.
DXDIAG: Even after applying KB 2670838 to Windows 7 SP1, DXDIAG will still report it as “DirectX 11”.
XINPUT and XAUDIO2: KB 2670838 does not include XINPUT 1.4 or XAudio 2.8 on Windows 7. These remain Windows 8 exclusive. See XINPUT and Windows 8 and XAudio2 and Windows 8 for guidance on handling this difference in Win32 desktop applications.
WIC: KB 2670838 includes WIC2 for Windows 7. See Windows Imaging Component and Windows 8 for details.
Media Foundation: KB 2670838 does not include the updates to Media Foundation to use DirectX 11 Video support. To render video to a texture, you must use DXGI shared surfaces prior to Windows 8.0.
DirectX 11 vs. 11.1: For Windows 7 and Windows Vista, you can continue to use the same DirectX 11.0 APIs as always even with this update installed. The only thing you have to do is to install the updated SDK Debug Layers to restore D3D11_CREATE_DEVICE_DEBUG functionality. If you want to take advantage of some of the new DirectX 11.1 APIs now available on Windows 7 as well, you need to use the Windows 8.0 SDK with VS 2010 or VS 2012 rather than continuing to use the legacy DirectX SDK. See Where is the DirectX SDK? and DirectX SDKs of a certain age for details.
VS 2012: There is improved support for using VS 2012 Graphics Diagnostics on Windows 7 with KB 2670838 installed in the VS 2012 Update 2. Installing the KB also enables GPU debugging for C++ AMP programs.
VS 2013: The original release of VS 2013 RTM had a prerequisite of installing IE10, which in turn required KB 2670838. This setup requirement has been removed for Windows 7 systems in a refreshed setup, but may result in some reduced functionality (see KB 2906882).
Summary :
Now Microsoft is moving DirectX 12 to Windows 7, which brings great benefits to World of Warcraft gamers, but it only supports 64-bit Windows 7 with SP1 installed. But why does Microsoft make DirectX 12 Games run on Windows 7? This post will give you an answer.
DirectX 12 Games Run on Windows 7
When Microsoft introduced Windows 10, it was clear that the only operating system supporting DirectX 12's latest API was Windows 10, which forced many gamers who wanted to play DirectX 12 games to upgrade their operating system to Windows 10.
But in March of this year, Microsoft announced that World of Warcraft can use the DX12 API on Windows 7. Then why can Microsoft support DirectX 12 games run on Windows 7? Probably the main reason is China. There are a large number of people in China who like to play World of Warcraft.
At the end of last year, Blizzard added DirectX 12 to World of Warcraft on Windows 10, which greatly improved the framerate, so it is very popular among gamers.
Therefore, Microsoft said: “We have received warm welcome from the gaming community, and we continued to work with several game studios to further evaluate this work. To better support game developers at larger scales, we are publishing the following resources to allow game developers to run their DirectX 12 games on Windows 7.”
Directx 7.0 Windows 7
However, there are some technical differences of DX12 between Windows 7 and Windows 10. Windows 7 does not support DirectML and some fence usage modes, but supports all other features of the Windows 10 1809 update. And the D3D12 on Windows 7 uses different Present APIs.
Besides, there are some limitations to support. The DX12 only supports 64-bit Windows 7 installed SP1, because there is no PIX or D3D12 debug layer, no shared surfaces or cross-API interop, no SLI/LDA support, no D3D12 video, and no WARP support on Windows.
Why Make DX12 More Accessible?
Actually, it is very surprising that Microsoft brings DirectX 12 games to Windows 7, because Microsoft will end the support for Windows 7 on January 14th, 2020. Therefore, this action may mean that Microsoft is trying to cater to Windows 7 gamers in this way.
According to the Stream Hardware Survey, it shows that there are 71.57% gamers using Windows 10, while there are only 20.4% gamers using 64-bit Windows 7. However, the result of this survey actually biases to Windows 10 compared to the general OS survey.
But through the data of StatCounter, the market occupied by Windows 10 has changed from 31.22% in July last year to 58.63% in July this year, which means that gamers update their operating systems faster than the mass market.
Windows 7 is still the most popular operating system in China. In China, 49.46% of gamers use Windows 7, and only 41.13% of gamers use Windows 10.
Maybe Microsoft also wants developers to adopt DX12 more widely because DX12 and Vulkan haven’t made many contributions to APIs or gaming after debut for 3 years.
Directx 12 Download For Windows 7
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