According to Net Applications, Windows 7 still holds 36.9 percent of the desktop OS market share, compared to 39.22 percent for Windows 10.Įven more good news for Windows 7 gamers Microsoft added that we can expect even more DirectX 12 games in the future. Windows 7, first released in winter of 2009, is still a popular desktop OS for many PCs despite no longer being sold on new computers. Microsoft has tried to remain firm on the end of Windows 7's lifecycle, which is scheduled to end in January 2020. Thanks to the API's support for multi-threading, players can expect a framerate boost even on the older OS. This will be good news for stubborn Windows 7 users who still haven't upgraded to Windows 10. Microsoft announced that Blizzard would be the first game developer to offer DirectX 12 support for Windows 7. Nevertheless, this performance improvement isn't shown on some benchmarks because, depending on the graphics card installed on the PC, DirectX 11 may behave better than the most recent version.Gamers who remain on Windows 7 can now play World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth with the added boost of DirectX 12. In other words, it's easier to identify an error and for the user to notify it and try to fix it. Improved debugging of both commands and information.Correction of flaws that prevented us from knowing the reason why the GPU failed interpreting instructions.CPU and GPU workloads processed separately to gain in performance.These are the main updates that come along in this version: With the latest version of Microsoft's operating system, DirectX 12 is already preinstalled.ĭX12 is fully compatible with graphics cards supported by DX11. In other words, if you need to get hold of them for Windows 8.1, Windows 7 o Windows Vista (let's hope you've already got rid of XP), you can download DirectX 9, DirectX 10 or DirectX 11. Until the arrival of Windows 10, all the versions of this pack of APIs could be downloaded as a standalone and weren't included in the operating system by default. Thanks to the latter, Windows has become a great gaming platform, being able to put a fight up against video consoles and even beat them in terms of performance and yield. Ever since Windows 95, Microsoft has developed subsequent versions of DirectX, its collection of APIs aimed at simplifying the most complex multimedia development tasks, especially those relative to video game coding.
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