Windows 11 auto-updates DirectX via Windows Update—you're likely already on the latest version. To force an update, open Windows Update in the Windows 11 Settings app and click "Check for Updates." ...

2025 marks 10 years after the official launch of DirectX 12 for Windows 10. This came after a relatively frequent release ...

The Internet’s been abuzz over the promise of Windows 10’s underlying DirectX 12 gaming technology for months now. Drastically higher frame rates! Drastically lower power consumption! Drastically ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is making a very surprising addition to Windows 7 this week, ...

Microsoft has historically helped push adoption of new OSes along by locking gaming features - like new version of DirectX - to the latest version of Windows. DirectX 12 and Windows 10 have been no ...

Poking around the fresh Windows 10 build last night, I found an interesting new feature that Joe Belfiore didn’t mentioned in his announcement post: DirectX 12 is already baked into the operating ...

Microsoft announced the arrival of Direct X12 in early 2014 In its Game Developer Conference, Microsoft (MSFT) announced its DirectX 12 that will be built into Windows 10. DirectX 12 is the latest ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 20, 2001 — This week at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2001, Microsoft Corp. will showcase the Microsoft® DirectX® API, its powerful game development application ...

The latest flavor of the API suite that enables 3D animation and other multimedia effects remains exclusive to Windows 8 as Microsoft has no plans to port it over to Windows 7. Lance Whitney is 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 ...