Whatever the reasons, if you’re still running Windows 7, you may soon see an influx of DirectX 12 games coming to your operating system. Another way of looking at it is that by making DirectX 12 – and the features it supports – more widely available to Windows 7 users, it could encourage more game developers to embrace DirectX 12 – something that Microsoft has been struggling with. However, Windows 7 is now two generations old, and it is rapidly reaching its End-of-Life, which means that on January 14, 2020, Microsoft will stop supporting the OS.īut, by allowing DirectX 12 games to run on Windows 7, is Microsoft admitting defeat when it comes to getting stubborn gamers to move to Windows 10? In the past, Microsoft has usually tied in the latest version of DirectX into its latest operating system, which some cynical people suggest is a way of encouraging/forcing gamers to upgrade their OS. While gamers using Windows 7 will welcome the news, many others will wonder why Microsoft is doing this.
I guess World of Warcraft is just as important as SimCity.However, it’s noted that while World of Warcraft can be played on Windows 7 with DirectX 12, the best performance will remain on Windows 10 because, as Microsoft puts it, “Windows 10 contains a number of OS optimizations designed to make DirectX 12 run even faster.” Why now?
Windows 7, supports version 11.1 available in Windows 7 with Service Pack 1. Windows 8.1 supports up to DirectX 11.2 and as in Windows 10, there is no manual download and it is updated in the same way. Let that sink in: Microsoft backported Direct X 12 to Windows just for World of Warcraft. For Windows 10, DirectX 12 works exclusively from Windows Update.
This unblocks developers who want to take full advantage of the latest improvements in D3D12 while still supporting customers on older operating systems. Microsoft is pleased to announce that we have ported the user mode D3D12 runtime to Windows 7. 2 Click on Windows Update, then click on Change settings in the left pane. Method 1 Automatic Windows Updates 1 Click on the Start menu and type update into the search field. After seeing such performance wins for their gamers running DirectX 12 on Windows 10, Blizzard wanted to bring wins to their gamers who remain on Windows 7, where DirectX 12 was not available.Īt Microsoft, we make every effort to respond to customer feedback, so when we received this feedback from Blizzard and other developers, we decided to act on it. DirectX is normally updated automatically through routine Windows Updates, but can also be downloaded and updated manually for select versions of Windows. This release received a warm welcome from gamers: thanks to DirectX 12 features such as multi-threading, WoW gamers experienced substantial framerate improvement. Blizzard added DirectX 12 support for their award-winning World of Warcraft game on Windows 10 in late 2018.
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