ABOUT DIRECTX AND WHY DO YOU NEED IT?

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ABOUT DIRECTX AND WHY DO YOU NEED IT?

This question is one of the first, which is of interest to those who play games on the computer. Because when installing larger games, of course, you will be asked about this term or it will be required to install or be installed within the game.

DirectX - A collection of several technologies released by Microsoft to install beautiful, large-scale, 3D-sized games
and are used in the process of playing them. In other words,DirectX this is the required software and you cannot play large volume games without this software.

This program belongs to the Windows system, game developers DirectX through, they avoid having their games tied to specific devices, i.e. the games being created run smoothly on all devices. This concept is only general, the program has a lot of functions to perform.

DirectX It includes the following components:

1. DirectInput - work with control devices.

2. DirectSound - work with sound.

3. DirectDraw - work with two-dimensional graphics

4. Direct3D - work with three-dimensional graphics.

There are other components, these are the main ones, there are several versions of the program,

On your computer DirextX 'To see which version of is installed, do the following:

1. The Run window opens, i.e. Win R.

2. 'dxDiag»Command is dialed.

3. You can see the version at the bottom of the resulting window, you can also see other components of the computer in this window.

For which operating system, which version of DirectX software should be installed? The general answer to this question is as follows:

Windows XP — DirectX 9

Windows Vista — DirectX 10

Windows 7 — DirectX 11

This is not a standard, just a tip.