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flexibilities to some of the existing features (cubemap arrays and independent blending modes). Direct3D 10.1 level hardware must support the following features: Multisampling has been enhanced to generalize coverage based transparency and make multisampling work more effectively with multi-pass rendering, better culling behavior – Zero-area faces are automatically culled; this affects wireframe rendering only, independent blend modes per render target, new sample-frequency pixel shader execution with primitive rasterization, increased pipeline stage bandwidth, both color and depth/stencil MSAA surfaces can now be used with CopyResource as either a source or destination, MultisampleEnable only affects line rasterization (points and triangles are unaffected), and is used to choose a line drawing algorithm. This means that some multisample rasterization from Direct3D 10 are no longer supported, Texture
Sampling – sample_c and sample_c_lz instructions are defined to work with both Texture2DArrays and TextureCubeArrays use the Location member (the alpha component) to specify an array index, support for TextureCubeArrays.
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multisampled resource once it is no longer bound as a render target, full HLSL integration – all Direct3D 10 shaders are written in HLSL and implemented with the common-shader core, integer and bitwise shader operations, organization of pipeline state into 5 immutable state objects, organization of shader constants into constant buffers, increased number of render targets, textures, and samplers, no shader length limit, new resource types and resource formats, layered runtime/API layers, option to perform per-primitive material swapping and setup using a geometry shader, increased generalization of resource access using a view, removed legacy hardware capability bits (caps).
1199:, expanding on the functionality first introduced in Direct3D 10.1 runtime. Feature levels allow developers to unify the rendering pipeline under Direct3D 11 API and make use of API improvements such as better resource management and multithreading even on entry-level cards, though advanced features such as new shader models and rendering stages will only be exposed on up-level hardware. There are three "10 Level 9" profiles which encapsulate various capabilities of popular DirectX 9.0a cards, and Direct3D 10, 10.1, and 11 each have a separate feature level; each upper level is a strict superset of a lower level.
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operations in a render target, option to bind a subrange of a constant buffer to a shader and retrieve it, option to create larger constant buffers than a shader can access, option to discard resources and resource views, option to change subresources with new copy options, option to force the sample count to create a rasterizer state, option to clear all or part of a resource view, option to use Direct3D in
Session 0 processes, option to specify user clip planes in HLSL on feature level 9 and higher, support for
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texture clamps to limit WDDM preload, require 8-bits of subtexel and sub-mip precision on texture filtering, 16K texture limits, Gather4(support for multi-component textures, support for programmable offsets), DrawIndirect, conservative oDepth, Depth Bias, addressable stream output, per-resource mipmap clamping, floating-point viewports, shader conversion instructions, improved multithreading.
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addressed using CBV (constant buffer view), SRV (shader resource view) and UAV (unordered access view), as well as texture sampler units. Tier 3 hardware allows fully bindless resources only restricted by the size of the descriptor heap, while Tier 1 and Tier 2 hardware impose some limits on the number of descriptors ("views") that can be used simultaneously.
2092:) re-encapsulate various features of popular Direct3D 9 cards, levels 10_0, 10_1 refer to respective legacy versions of Direct3D 10, 11_0 and 11_1 reflects the feature introduced with Direct3D 11 and Direct3D 11.1 APIs and runtimes, while levels 12_0 and 12_1 correspond the new feature levels introduced with the Direct3D 12 API.
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and unnecessary uses. In Direct3D 12, descriptor heaps and tables mean the most often used resources can be allocated by developers in tables, which the GPU can quickly and easily access. This can contribute to better performance than Direct3D 11 on equivalent hardware, but it also entails more work for the developer.
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Each upper level is a strict superset of a lower level, with only a few new or previously optional features that move to the core functionality on an upper level. More advanced features in a major revision of the Direct3D API such as new shader models and rendering stages are only exposed on up-level
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Direct3D 10.1 added a few new mandatory hardware requirements, and to remain compatible with 10.0 hardware and drivers, these features were encapsulated in two sets called "feature levels", with 10.1 level forming a superset of 10.0 level. As Direct3D 11.0, 11.1 and 12 added support for new hardware,
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Floating Point Rules – Uses the same IEEE-754 rules for floating-point EXCEPT 32-bit floating point operations have been tightened to produce a result within 0.5 unit-last-place (0.5 ULP) of the infinitely precise result. This applies to addition, subtraction, and multiplication. (accuracy to 0.5 ULP
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level hardware must support the following features: the ability to process entire primitives in the new geometry-shader stage, the ability to output pipeline-generated vertex data to memory using the stream-output stage, multisampled alpha-to-coverage support, readback of a depth/stencil surface or a
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4.0 and optional interruptibility for shader programs. In this model shaders still consist of fixed stages as in previous versions, but all stages support a nearly unified interface, as well as a unified access paradigm for resources such as textures and shader constants. The language itself has been
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Finer-grained context switching, i.e. being able to switch two execution threads at the shader-instruction level instead of the single-command level or even batch of commands, was introduced in WDDM/DXGI 1.2 which shipped with
Windows 8. This overcomes a potential scheduling problem when application
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WDDM driver model in
Windows Vista and higher supports arbitrarily large number of execution contexts (or threads) in hardware or in software. Windows XP only supported multitasked access to Direct3D, where separate applications could execute in different windows and be hardware accelerated, and the
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Fullscreen mode: The Direct3D application generates all of the graphical output for a display device. In this mode Direct3D automatically captures Alt-Tab and sets/restores screen resolution and pixel format without the programmer intervention. This also provides plenty of problems for debugging due
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While resource binding is fairly convenient in Direct3D 11 for developers at the moment, its inefficiency means several modern hardware capabilities are being drastically underused. When a game engine needed resources in DX11, it had to draw the data from scratch every time, meaning repeat processes
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Some new hardware features are also in Direct3D 12, including Shader Model 5.1, Volume Tiled
Resources(Tier 2), Shader Specified Stencil Reference Value, Typed UAV Load, Conservative Rasterization(Tier 1), better collision and culling with Conservative Rasterization, Rasterizer Ordered Views (ROVs),
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DXUT (also called the sample framework) is a layer built on top of the Direct3D API. The framework is designed to help the programmer spend less time with mundane tasks, such as creating a window, creating a device, processing
Windows messages and handling device events. DXUT have been removed with
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Direct3D 12 for
Windows 10 requires graphics hardware conforming to feature levels 11_0 and 11_1 which support virtual memory address translations and requires WDDM 2.0 drivers. There are two new feature levels, 12_0 and 12_1, which include some new features exposed by Direct3D 12 that are optional
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allows a lower level of hardware abstraction than earlier versions, enabling future applications to significantly improve multithreaded scaling and decrease CPU utilization. This is achieved by better matching the Direct3D abstraction layer with the underlying hardware, through new features such as
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features include: Support for Shader Model 5.0, Dynamic shader linking, addressable resources, additional resource types, subroutines, geometry instancing, coverage as pixel shader input, programmable interpolation of inputs, new texture compression formats (1 new LDR format and 1 new HDR format),
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For DirectX 2.0 and 3.0, the Direct3D immediate mode used an "execute buffer" programming model that
Microsoft hoped hardware vendors would support directly. Execute buffers were intended to be allocated in hardware memory and parsed by the hardware to perform the 3D rendering. They were considered
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The ability to execute the runtime in a multi-threaded mode has been introduced with Direct3D 11 runtime. Each execution context is presented with a resource view of the GPU. Execution contexts are protected from each other, however a rogue or badly written app can take control of the execution in
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Direct3D 12 introduces a revamped resource binding model which allows explicit control of memory. Abstract "resource view" objects are now represented with resource descriptors, which are allocated using memory heaps and tables. Resource
Binding tiers define maximum number of resources that can be
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shipped in July 2015 with
Windows 10; it includes minor rendering features from Direct3D 12, while keeping the overall structure of the Direct3D 11.x API. Direct3D 11.3 introduces optional Shader Specified Stencil Reference Value, Typed Unordered Access View Loads, Rasterizer Ordered Views (ROVs),
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on feature level 9, support for video playback, extended support for shared Texture2D resources, and on-the-fly swapping between Direct3D 10 and 11 contexts and feature levels. Direct3D 11.1 includes new feature level 11_1, which brings minor updates to the shader language, such as larger constant
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and because of the massive install base of non-Direct3D 10 compatible graphics cards, the first Direct3D 10-compatible games still provide Direct3D 9 render paths. Examples of such titles are games originally written for Direct3D 9 and ported to Direct3D 10 after their release,
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In Direct3D 5 to 9, when new versions of the API introduced support for new hardware capabilities, most of them were optional – each graphics vendor maintained their own set of supported features in addition to the basic required functionality. Support for individual features had to be determined
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and HLSL compiler enhancements, support for minimum precision HLSL scalar data types, UAVs (Unordered Access Views) at every pipeline stage, target-independent rasterization (TIR), option to map SRVs of dynamic buffers with NO_OVERWRITE, shader processing of video resources, option to use logical
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feature a tessellation engine that can be used with Direct3D 9/10/10.1 and OpenGL, but it's not compatible with Direct3D 11 (according to Microsoft). Older graphics hardware such as Radeon 8xxx, GeForce 3/4 had support for another form of tesselation (RT patches, N patches) but those technologies
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Within Direct3D 11, the commands are sent from the CPU to the GPU one by one, and the GPU works through these commands sequentially. This means that commands are bottlenecked by the speed at which the CPU could send these commands in a linear fashion. Within DirectX 12 these commands are sent as
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Pipeline state objects (PSOs) have evolved from Direct3D 11, and the new concise pipeline states mean that the process has been simplified. DirectX 11 offered flexibility in how its states could be altered, to the detriment of performance. Simplifying the process and unifying the pipelines (e.g.
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Direct3D 10.1 sets a few more image quality standards for graphics vendors, and gives developers more control over image quality. Features include finer control over anti-aliasing (both multisampling and supersampling with per sample shading and application control over sample position) and more
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those shaders to instructions that could be understood by the hardware. Direct3D 8.0 and its programmable shading capabilities were the first major departure from an OpenGL-style fixed-function architecture, where drawing is controlled by a complicated state machine. Direct3D 8.0 also eliminated
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Root signatures introduce configurations to link command lists to resources required by shaders. They define the layout of resources that shaders will use and specifies what resources will be bound to the pipeline. A graphics command list has both a graphics and compute root signature, while a
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WDDM 2.0 and DirectX 12 have been reengineered to allow fully multithreaded draw calls. This was achieved by making all resources immutable (i.e. read-only), serializing the rendering states and using draw call bundles. This avoids complex resource management in the kernel-mode driver, making
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In December 1996, a team in Redmond took over development of the Direct3D Immediate Mode, while the London-based RenderMorphics team continued work on the Retained Mode. The Redmond team added the DrawPrimitive API that eliminated the need for applications to construct execute buffers, making
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Unlike prior versions of the API, Direct3D 10 no longer uses "capability bits" (or "caps") to indicate which features are supported on a given graphics device. Instead, it defines a minimum standard of hardware capabilities which must be supported for a display system to be "Direct3D 10
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Windows XP and earlier are not supported by DirectX 10.0 and above. Furthermore, Direct3D 10 dropped support for the retained mode API which had been a part of Direct3D since the beginning, making Windows Vista incompatible with 3D games that had used the retained mode API as their
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the user-mode driver and could potentially access data from another process within GPU memory by sending modified commands. Though protected from access by another app, a well-written app still needs to protect itself against failures and device loss caused by other applications.
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on the user's computer does not support that feature, Direct3D will not emulate it, although it will compute and render the polygons and textures of the 3D models, albeit at a usually degraded quality and performance compared to the hardware equivalent. The API does include a
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The Microsoft Direct3D 11 API defines a process to convert a group of vertices, textures, buffers, and state into an image on the screen. This process is described as a rendering pipeline with several distinct stages. The different stages of the Direct3D 11 pipeline are:
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and optional texture management to simplify programming. Direct3D 6.0 also included support for features that had been licensed by Microsoft from specific hardware vendors for inclusion in the API, in exchange for the time-to-market advantage to the licensing vendor.
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Direct3D 10 introduced a much simplified set of mandatory hardware requirements based on most popular Direct3D 9 capabilities which all supporting graphics cards had to adhere to, with only a few optional capabilities for supported texture formats and operations.
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The common shader core provides a full set of IEEE-compliant 32-bit integer and bitwise operations. These operations enable a new class of algorithms in graphics hardware—examples include compression and packing techniques, FFTs, and bitfield program-flow
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Direct3D 12 features explicit multi-adapter support, allowing the explicit control of multiple GPUs configuration systems. Such configurations can be built with graphics adapter of the same hardware vendor as well of different hardware vendor together.
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compute command list will have only a compute root signature. These root signatures are completely independent of each other. While the root signature lays out the types of data for shaders to use, it does not define or map the actual memory or data.
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08 technical conference on August 26, 2008. The Direct3D 11 Technical Preview has been included in November 2008 release of DirectX SDK. AMD previewed working DirectX11 hardware at Computex on June 3, 2009, running some DirectX 11 SDK samples.
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extremely awkward to program at the time, however, hindering adoption of the new API and prompting calls for Microsoft to adopt OpenGL as the official 3D rendering API for games as well as workstation applications. (see OpenGL vs. Direct3D)
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on levels 11_0 and 11_1. Some previously optional features are realigned as baseline on levels 11_0 and 11_1. Shader Model 6.0 has been released with Windows 10 Creators Update and requires Windows 10 Anniversary Update, WDDM 2.1 drivers.
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bits, how the resource will be used by the application. These flags dictate which resources are used in dynamic or static access patterns. Static resource values don't change after being loaded, whereas dynamic resource values may be
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command lists, containing all the required information within a single package. The GPU is then capable of computing and executing this command in one single process, without having to wait on any additional information from the CPU.
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Within these command lists are bundles. Where previously commands were just taken, used, and then forgotten by the GPU, bundles can be reused. This decreases the workload of the GPU and means repeated assets can be used much faster.
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compiler, option to annotate graphics commands. Feature levels 11_0 and 11_1 introduce optional support for tiled resources with shader level of detail clamp (Tier2). The latter feature effectively provides control over the hardware
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Resource binding (three tiers), tiled resources (four tiers), conservative rasterization (three tiers), stencil reference value from Pixel Shader, rasterizer ordered views, typed UAV loads for additional formats, view instancing.
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Logical blend operations, target-independent rasterization, UAVs at every pipeline stage with increased slot count, UAV only rendering with force sample count, constant buffer offsetting and partial updates, all 11_0 features.
2332:: Shader Model 6.5, Raytracing Tier 1.1, Mesh Shaders, Variable-Rate Shading, Sampler Feedback, Resource Binding Tier 3, Tiled Resources Tier 3 (Texture3D), Conservative Rasterization Tier 3, 40-bit virtual address space.
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to system memory, allows graphics operations to be interrupted and scheduled and allow DirectX surfaces to be shared across processes. Direct3D 9Ex was previously known as version 1.0 of Windows Graphics Foundation (WGF).
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Shader Model 4.0, geometry shader, stream out, alpha-to-coverage, 8K textures, MSAA textures, 2-sided stencil, general render target views, texture arrays, BC4/BC5, full floating-point format support, all 9_3 features.
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was updated to fully support the new features. There is no feature level 11_2 however; the new features are dispersed across existing feature levels. Those that are hardware-dependent can be checked individually via
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This approach allows developers to unify the rendering pipeline and use a single version of the API on both newer and older hardware, taking advantage of performance and usability improvements in the newer runtime.
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support, allowing multiple instances of similar meshes, such as armies, or grass or trees, to be rendered in a single draw call, reducing the processing time needed for multiple similar objects to that of a single
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API subsystem component. The aim of Direct3D is to abstract the communication between a graphics application and the graphics hardware drivers. It is presented like a thin abstract layer at a level comparable to
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compatible". This is a significant departure, with the goal of streamlining application code by removing capability-checking code and special cases based on the presence or absence of specific capabilities.
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stage that breaks the old model of one vertex in/one vertex out, to allow geometry to be generated from within a shader, thus allowing for complex geometry to be generated entirely by the graphics hardware.
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API that attained little adoption. Game developers clamored for more direct control of the hardware's activities than the Direct3D retained mode could provide. Only two games that sold a significant volume,
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was announced by Microsoft shortly after the release of Direct3D 10 as a minor update. The specification was finalized with the release of November 2007 DirectX SDK and the runtime was shipped with the
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Besides introducing an easier-to-use immediate mode API, DirectX 5.0 added the SetRenderTarget method that enabled Direct3D devices to write their graphical output to a variety of DirectDraw surfaces.
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Rather than adopt OpenGL as a gaming API, Microsoft chose to continue improving Direct3D, not only to be competitive with OpenGL, but to compete more effectively with other proprietary APIs such as
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Root parameters are one type of entry in a root signature. The actual values of the root parameters that are modified at runtime are called root arguments. This is the data that the shaders read.
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pixel shader states) lead to a more streamlined process, significantly reducing the overheads and allowing the graphics card to draw more calls for each frame. Once created, the PSO is immutable.
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buffers and optional double-precision instructions, as well as improved blending modes and mandatory support for 16-bit color formats to improve the performance of entry-level GPUs such as
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Separate capabilities exist to indicate support for specific texture operations and resource formats; these are specified per each texture format using a combination of capability flags.
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UAV only rendering with force sample count, constant buffer offsetting and partial updates, double precision (64-bit) floating point operations, minimum floating-point precision (10- or
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Direct3D was not considered to be user friendly, but as of DirectX version 8.1, many usability problems were resolved. Direct3D 8 contained many powerful 3D graphics features, such as
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Tiled resources (four tiers), conservative rasterization (three tiers), stencil reference value from Pixel Shader, rasterizer ordered views, typed UAV loads for additional formats.
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as a separate API. Direct3D subsumed all remaining DirectDraw API calls still needed for application development, such as Present(), the function used to display rendering results.
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Fixed pipelines are being done away with in favor of fully programmable pipelines (often referred to as unified pipeline architecture), which can be programmed to emulate the same.
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extended to be more expressive, including integer operations, a greatly increased instruction count, and more C-like language constructs. In addition to the previously available
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Indirect Drawing, descriptor tables, concise pipeline state objects, and draw call bundles. Reducing driver overhead is the main attraction of Direct3D 12, similarly to AMD's
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Unlike Direct3D 10 which strictly required Direct3D 10-class hardware and driver interfaces, Direct3D 10.1 runtime can run on Direct3D 10.0 hardware using a concept of "
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possible multiple reentrant calls to the user-mode driver via concurrent executions contexts supplied by separate rendering threads in the same application.
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device drivers. Preliminary version of the Windows SDK for Windows 8 Developer Preview was released on September 13, 2011.
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An experimental support of D3D 12 for Windows 7 SP1 has been released by Microsoft in 2019 via a dedicated NuGet package.
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was released as part of Windows 7. It was presented at Gamefest 2008 on July 22, 2008 and demonstrated at the
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Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components: ValveSoftware/Proton
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storage and matrix stacks. There are several functions that provide complex operations over 3D
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Build Gallium Nine support on top of an existing WINE installation: iXit/wine-nine-standalone
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5168:"AnandTech – Microsoft Announces DirectX 12: Low-Level Graphics Programming Comes To DirectX"
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using "capability bits" or "caps", making cross-vendor graphics programming a complex task.
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Occlusion queries, floating-point formats (no blending), extended caps, all 9_1 features.
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4603:"Intel's Haswell IGP to Feature DirectX 11.1, Increased Professional Application Support"
4405:"The Platform Update for Windows Vista – DirectX Developer Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs"
2631:(DLL). D3DX is deprecated from Windows 8 onward and can't be used in Windows Store apps.
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All mandatory 11_0 features from Direct3D 11, Shader Model 5.1, Resource binding Tier 1.
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2963:"MicroSoft DirectX Downloads for Windows (Win95, Win98, Win98SE, WinME, Win2000, WinXP)"
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Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.
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project, and is now included with Valve's Proton project bundled with Steam on Linux.
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6464:"Windows 10 Versus Linux: 6 Steam Games Benchmarked On Intel's Hades Canyon NUC"
5691:"Coming to DirectX 12— Sampler Feedback: some useful once-hidden data, unlocked"
2993:"Download DirectX 9.0c End-User Runtime from Official Microsoft Download Center"
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Vulkan-based D3D11 and D3D10 implementation for Linux / Wine: doitsujin/dxvk
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1709:(see attached diagram). Direct3D contains numerous features that GDI lacks.
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a common set of previously optional features (Direct3D 11.0 "10 level 9").
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new mandatory capabilities were further grouped in upper feature levels.
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to encourage broad adoption of the features in other vendors' hardware.
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only; Direct3D 9.0c, Shader Model 3.0, Windows Graphics Foundation 1.0,
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to unify OpenGL and Direct3D in the 1990s, but was eventually canceled.
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5049:"AnandTech – The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Review: Maxwell Mark 2"
4796:"What's new for Windows 8.1 Preview display drivers (WDDM 1.3)"
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Conservative Rasterization Tier 1, Rasterizer Ordered Views.
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in DirectX 6.0, but the API ended up being canceled (See the
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framework and also taken responsibility for the rendering of
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6662:"Ubuntu 18.10 Adds Gallium Nine Support, Latest Mesa 18.2.2"
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5741:"Coming to DirectX 12: More control over memory allocation"
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structure; levels 9_1, 9_2 and 9_3 (collectively known as
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device renders in color. There are four types of devices:
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1492:) and variable refresh rates support for UWP applications.
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5397:"DirectX 12 will also add new features for next-gen GPUs"
5374:"DirectX 12 will also add new features for next-gen GPUs"
3832:"What Direct3D 10 is all about – Additional Improvements"
3642:"The role of the Windows Display Driver Model in the DWM"
2551:– A fork of DXVK for adding Direct3D 8 support on Linux.
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Standard Swizzles, Default Texture Mapping, Swap Chains,
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6304:"Timeout detection and recovery (TDR) - Windows drivers"
6229:"Introduction to a Resource in Direct3D 11 - Win32 apps"
5247:"A closer look at DirectX 12 – The Tech Report – Page 3"
1229:"DX11" redirects here. For the digital synthesizer, see
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integrates the first released Direct3D 11 support. The
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From the beginning, the immediate mode also supported
5448:"Pipelines and Shaders with Direct3D 12 - Win32 apps"
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3868:"Microsoft Presents DirectX 10.1 Details at SIGGRAPH"
2845:"DirectX 8: Raising the Ante for Realism in Graphics"
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like tangent-space computation, mesh simplification,
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device provides white and black rendering, while the
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5214:"Direct3D 12 Overview Part 1: 'Closer To The Metal'"
4407:. Blogs.msdn.com. September 10, 2009. Archived from
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pool will only exist in system memory. Finally, the
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and physics acceleration, similar in spirit to what
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Microsoft has also hinted at other features such as
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No substantive changes were planned to Direct3D for
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3679:"Direct3D Retained Mode removed from Windows Vista"
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3214:"Press Release-Microsoft Meltdown (February 1997)"
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5235:https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/3-564
4722:"Windows 8.1 Feature Guide – DirectX programming"
4059:"DirectX Software Development Kit, November 2008"
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3707:"DirectX Software Development Kit, February 2007"
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819:(first available on PC hardware with Nvidia's
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4138:"Windows Driver Kit – Supporting Direct3D 11"
3681:. Archived from the original on June 1, 2013.
3443:"DirectX 8 Graphics and Video: A Fresh Start"
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3025:. qubesoft.com. April 4, 2017. Archived from
1450:is a superset of DirectX 11.2 running on the
1354:. The Direct3D runtime in Windows 8 features
808:(released in September, 1999) introduced the
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5502:"Direct3D 12 Overview Part 7: Dynamic Heaps"
5150:"Games for Windows and the DirectX SDK blog"
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4453:"D3D11_FEATURE_DATA_D3D11_OPTIONS structure"
4073:"AMD shows off world's first DirectX 11 GPU"
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3389:"Microsoft Announces Release of DirectX 8.0"
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6361:"WineD3DOnWindows – The Official Wine Wiki"
5768:. Microsoft. August 1, 2005. Archived from
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4475:"DirectX feature improvements in Windows 8"
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3259:. gamedev.net. May 29, 2000. Archived from
3216:. Microsoft Corporation. February 18, 1997.
1088:, which is available since mid-March 2008.
617:. The first version of Direct3D shipped in
540:, Windows Graphics Foundation 2.0, DXVA 2.0
503:Direct3D 9.0c – last version supported for
343:, atmospheric effects, perspective-correct
7618:Security Support Provider Interface (SSPI)
6966:
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4635:Games for Windows and the DirectX SDK Blog
4562:
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3931:Games for Windows and the DirectX SDK Blog
2627:/sphere generators. D3DX is provided as a
1839:Moreover, devices contain a collection of
6792:"DirectXMesh geometry processing library"
5766:"Software Rasterizer for DirectX 9.0 SDK"
5622:
5394:
4623:
4609:
4026:
3349:
2729:"Configuring Depth-Stencil Functionality"
536:Direct3D 10.0 – Windows Vista/Windows 7;
120:Learn how and when to remove this message
5156:
4977:"Microsoft officially turns down Mantle"
4844:"D3D11_TILED_RESOURCES_TIER enumeration"
4711:
4385:. Support.microsoft.com. October 2, 2012
4185:"Using ATI hardware tessellation in DX9"
4127:
3581:"Stencil Buffer Techniques (Direct3D 9)"
3559:"Multiple-element Textures (Direct3D 9)"
3316:. Microsoft. May 5, 1997. Archived from
3117:
2823:
2436:64 slots on feature level 11_1 hardware
1923:
1783:
1740:component, now officially discontinued.
1691:
1350:is an update to the API that ships with
7049:Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform
6822:"DirectXTex texture processing library"
6489:
5549:"Porting DirectX 12 games to Windows 7"
5477:"Root Signatures Overview - Win32 apps"
4788:
4555:
3311:"Bill Gates April 1997 Talisman Update"
3230:. Microsoft Corporation. July 22, 1997.
3089:
2004:: Merges various types of output data (
1903:Direct3D implements two display modes:
1736:and so on). It once had a higher level
1176:Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform
604:
491:Direct3D 8.1 – Pixel Shader 1.2/1.3/1.4
440:Direct3D's main competitor is Khronos'
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7044:DirectX Graphics Infrastructure (DXGI)
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5267:
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3537:"Multiple Render Targets (Direct3D 9)"
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1104:for multiply, 1.0 ULP for reciprocal).
924:Direct3D 9Ex improvements - Win32 apps
180:12.0 Beta 3 / January 13, 2015
6947:
6132:"Direct3D 11.1 Features - Win32 apps"
4092:. Microsoft. Slide 56. Archived from
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3138:from the original on January 26, 2021
3071:from the original on January 26, 2021
3050:
3046:
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2079:
1928:Direct3D 11 graphics pipeline process
479:Transformation, Clipping and Lighting
5630:"Direct Machine Learning (DirectML)"
5605:"Announcing new DirectX 12 features"
3677:Microsoft Support (March 17, 2009).
3491:"Writing HLSL Shaders in Direct3D 9"
3411:"Direct Action Feature: DirectX 8.0"
3182:
2591:and colors, calculating look-at and
1908:to the 'Exclusive Cooperative Mode'.
1655:
1027:enhances the programmability of the
365:Direct3D contains many commands for
58:adding citations to reliable sources
29:
6938:DirectX 10: The Future of PC Gaming
6434:Michael Larabel (August 23, 2019).
6168:"D3D11_FORMAT_SUPPORT2 enumeration"
5716:"DirectX Raytracing (DXR) Tier 1.1"
5658:
5594:
5577:"Microsoft.Direct3D.D3D12On7 1.1.0"
5465:
5395:Kowaliski, Cyril (March 21, 2014).
4113:"Direct3D 11 on Downlevel Hardware"
3834:. Tom's Hardware. November 8, 2006.
1820:Every device contains at least one
1719:transformations, clipping, lighting
1535:, programmable blend and efficient
1391:
1196:
1124:
628:Direct3D initially implemented an "
488:1.0/1.1 & Vertex Shader 1.0/1.1
421:and above, and is the base for the
24:
7510:Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC)
7482:Distributed Component Object Model
6146:"D3D11_FORMAT_SUPPORT enumeration"
5784:"Direct3D Resources – Memory pool"
4303:"D3D11_RASTERIZER_DESC1 structure"
3945:"D3D10_FEATURE_LEVEL1 enumeration"
3631:
3357:"DirectX 7: [due] July 99"
3183:Chen, Raymond (January 22, 2004).
3041:
2923:"Vertex Shaders and Pixel Shaders"
2898:"Vertex Shaders and Pixel Shaders"
2480:provides Direct3D Mobile support.
2467:
1894:: Describes, with a collection of
1832:surfaces. Rendering occurs in the
546:Direct3D 11.0 – Windows Vista SP2/
25:
7863:
6933:MSDN: DirectX Graphics and Gaming
6921:
6660:Joey Sneddon (October 10, 2018).
6562:Michael Larabel (July 30, 2019).
6490:Rebohle, Philip (April 3, 2019),
6462:Jason Evangelho (March 1, 2019).
3343:"DDS (DirectDraw Surface format)"
2442:
2016:
1613:so GPUs can benefit from its API.
500:Direct3D 9.0b – Pixel Shader 2.0b
425:API on the different versions of
293:application programming interface
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3365:. UK. March 1999. Archived from
2771:"Geometry Blending (Direct3D 9)"
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2096:Feature levels in Direct3D 11.4
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452:was an attempt by Microsoft and
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5475:stevewhims (February 6, 2023).
5334:"Shader Model 5.1 - Win32 apps"
4951:"Raising the Bar with Direct3D"
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7520:Windows Template Library (WTL)
4061:. Microsoft. November 7, 2008.
3870:. ExtremeTech. August 7, 2007.
3725:"Resource Types (Direct3D 10)"
3299:. Microsoft. February 3, 1999.
3092:"Joining the Multimedia Party"
3090:Prosise, Jeff (May 16, 1995).
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1394:11_1 and its related APIs, or
1215:order independent transparency
1169:
928:
644:. The retained mode API was a
466:DirectX § Version history
13:
1:
7515:Active Template Library (ATL)
7235:Data Access Components (MDAC)
6975:Microsoft APIs and frameworks
6190:"Hardware Tiers - Win32 apps"
4756:"What's New in Direct3D 11.2"
4241:"OpenGL Tessellation Samples"
4016:"Gamefest 2008 Presentations"
3391:. Microsoft. November 9, 2000
3297:"Microsoft Ships DirectX 6.1"
3185:"What happened to DirectX 4?"
2715:
2684:List of 3D graphics libraries
2638:Windows SDK and Visual Studio
2609:precomputed radiance transfer
2511:. It's primarily used by the
1884:format value means a 24 bits
1402:rendering – are not present.
1293:Model 5 achieve among others.
880:
303:, Direct3D is used to render
6391:, Direct3D 12, April 3, 2019
6325:, Microsoft, 6 January 2010.
6215:"D3D12_FEATURE - Win32 apps"
4631:"DirectX 11.1 and Windows 7"
4605:. AnandTech. August 5, 2011.
3656:"API Features (Direct3D 10)"
3285:. Microsoft. August 7, 1998.
3245:. Microsoft Systems Journal.
3051:Claro, Nicole (April 1995).
1365:The new API features shader
935:Windows Display Driver Model
909:Windows Display Driver Model
597:Direct3D 12.2 – Windows 10;
591:Direct3D 12.1 – Windows 10;
417:, Direct3D is available for
408:Windows Vista Service Pack 2
7:
7811:Multilingual User Interface
7737:Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)
6642:, iXit Group, April 3, 2019
4570:. MSDN. September 13, 2011.
4018:. Microsoft. Archived from
3709:. Microsoft. Archived from
3603:"Direct3D 9Ex Improvements"
3023:"Qube Soft Management Team"
2815:. Microsoft. Archived from
2672:
2484:Alternative implementations
2247:Direct3D 12 feature levels
2104:Mandatory hardware features
1919:
1468:Unified Memory Access (UMA)
959:stages, the API includes a
459:
10:
7868:
6737:"Spherical Harmonics Math"
4997:Chris Tector's segment of
4619:. MSDN. November 14, 2012.
4199:"AMD DX9 Tessellation SDK"
3804:"Geometry Shader Features"
3747:"API Layers (Direct3D 10)"
3625:"Graphics APIs in Windows"
2689:High-Level Shader Language
2576:
2531:using Wine. It is used by
2023:Feature levels in Direct3D
2020:
1778:hardware abstraction layer
1500:
1486:Direct3D 11.4 version 1607
1480:Direct3D 11.4 version 1511
1228:
1173:
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890:High Level Shader Language
588:, Shader Model 5.1 and 6.0
463:
311:if it is available on the
305:three-dimensional graphics
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7262:Extensible Storage Engine
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7039:Windows Imaging Component
7034:Windows Image Acquisition
6981:
4955:Building Apps for Windows
4818:"Content Moved (Windows)"
4163:"Direct3D feature levels"
4075:. Engadget. June 3, 2009.
3967:"Direct3D feature levels"
3927:"Direct3D Feature Levels"
3691:: CS1 maint: unfit URL (
2679:List of 3D rendering APIs
2435:
2428:
2423:Samplers per shader stage
2399:
2283:Other optional features.
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1669:This section needs to be
511:(early releases) and for
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6616:"D8VK GitHub repository"
6541:"D9VK GitHub repository"
6104:. Direct3D 11 Graphics.
6077:. Direct3D 11 Graphics.
6050:. Direct3D 11 Graphics.
5996:. Direct3D 11 Graphics.
5969:. Direct3D 11 Graphics.
5941:. Direct3D 11 Graphics.
5913:. Direct3D 11 Graphics.
5885:. Direct3D 11 Graphics.
5858:. Direct3D 11 Graphics.
5831:. Direct3D 11 Graphics.
5804:. Direct3D 11 Graphics.
5124:"Direct3D 11.3 Features"
4889:"Direct3D 11.2 Features"
4675:"Direct3D 11.2 Features"
4497:"Direct3D 11.1 Features"
4431:"Direct3D 11.1 Features"
3882:"Direct3D 10.1 Features"
3846:"Direct3D 10.1 Features"
1800:to use this device type.
1757:(see attached diagram).
1700:Direct3D is a Microsoft
1641:Direct3D 12 version 21H2
1631:Direct3D 12 version 2004
1617:Direct3D 12 version 1903
1607:Direct3D 12 version 1809
1601:Direct3D 12 version 1709
1591:Direct3D 12 version 1703
1577:Direct3D 12 version 1607
477:Direct3D 7.0 – Hardware
7806:Language Interface Pack
7791:Text Services Framework
7505:Framework Class Library
5967:"Geometry Shader Stage"
5829:"Input-Assembler Stage"
4778:"DXGI 1.3 Improvements"
4519:"DXGI 1.2 Improvements"
4361:"Tessellation Overview"
4347:"Tessellation Overview"
3128:Game Developer Magazine
3061:Game Developer Magazine
2799:"Effects (Direct3D 11)"
2663:
2621:barycentric coordinates
2572:
2343:Resource binding tiers
911:(WDDM) and is used for
894:Multiple Render Targets
742:) as well as optimized
433:compatibility layer, a
7449:Common Log File System
7277:Access Database Engine
6989:Desktop Window Manager
6723:"Effect-Compiler Tool"
6265:April 4, 2015, at the
5745:DirectX Developer Blog
5720:DirectX Developer Blog
5695:DirectX Developer Blog
5670:DirectX Developer Blog
5609:DirectX Developer Blog
5189:"Intel Developer Zone"
4651:. MSDN. Archived from
3989:"Direct3D 11 Features"
3513:"HLSL in Direct3D 9.0"
2407:UAVs across all stages
2197:), min/max filtering.
1929:
1789:
1697:
1585:variable refresh rates
814:transform and lighting
761:S3 texture compression
625:(September 26, 1996).
157:; 28 years ago
7777:Text and multilingual
6862:on September 29, 2014
6832:on September 25, 2014
6802:on September 29, 2014
6772:on September 24, 2014
6709:"Living without D3DX"
6102:"Output-Merger Stage"
5994:"Stream-Output Stage"
5947:. Domain-Shader Stage
5939:"Tessellation Stages"
5911:"Tessellation Stages"
5883:"Tessellation Stages"
5856:"Vertex Shader Stage"
5772:on September 4, 2012.
5590:HLSL Shader Model 6.0
5529:on September 14, 2016
5233:first two minutes of
4649:"DirectX programming"
4022:on November 13, 2013.
3713:on September 3, 2012.
3469:"Direct3D 9 Graphics"
2597:spline interpolations
2394:SRVs per shader stage
2378:CBVs per shader stage
2277:Shader Model 6.0–6.7
1927:
1787:
1695:
1358:1.2 and requires new
1195:using the concept of
1136:Radeon HD 4000 series
1132:Radeon HD 3000 series
817:hardware acceleration
640:, both were based on
484:Direct3D 8.0 – Pixel
429:console systems. The
325:spatial anti-aliasing
309:hardware acceleration
182:; 9 years ago
7763:Active Accessibility
7029:Windows Color System
6410:"Vkd3d 1.0 Released"
6075:"Pixel Shader Stage"
5078:. September 19, 2014
4637:. November 13, 2012.
4259:"New Resource Types"
4205:on November 8, 2010.
4096:on January 28, 2013.
3790:"Common-Shader Core"
3627:. MSDN. August 2009.
3423:on February 23, 2001
3419:. UK. Archived from
2973:on November 10, 2006
2819:on November 2, 2011.
2710:3D computer graphics
2629:dynamic link library
1529:compressed resources
1519:to have to do that.
1055:Predicated rendering
1025:Unified shader model
946:features an updated
605:Direct3D 2.0 and 3.0
393:Reference Rasterizer
367:3D computer graphics
335:, texture blending,
246:3D computer graphics
218:Xbox system software
54:improve this article
7801:Input method editor
7613:Data Protection API
7404:Windows Script Host
7143:Image Mastering API
6687:"D3DX 11 Reference"
6367:on January 17, 2009
6283:learn.microsoft.com
6194:learn.microsoft.com
5919:. Tessellator Stage
5891:. Hull-Shader Stage
5802:"Graphics Pipeline"
5481:learn.microsoft.com
5452:learn.microsoft.com
5422:"Technical Library"
5104:. February 22, 2015
4655:on October 31, 2013
4541:"WDDM 1.2 features"
3525:on August 27, 2010.
3323:on December 8, 2015
3163:Otto Berkes’ weblog
3053:"Further Rendering"
2344:
2330:DirectX 12 Ultimate
2248:
2097:
2090:Direct3D 10 Level 9
1635:DirectX 12 Ultimate
1433:CheckFeatureSupport
797:page for details).
621:(June 2, 1996) and
599:DirectX 12 Ultimate
136:
7852:Graphics libraries
7699:Enterprise Library
7686:Software factories
7390:Administration and
7320:Filtering Platform
7121:Video Acceleration
6852:"DirectX Tool Kit"
6048:"Rasterizer Stage"
5551:. August 21, 2019.
4979:. October 16, 2013
4957:. October 14, 2013
4732:on August 27, 2015
2601:skeletal animation
2342:
2258:Optional features
2255:Mandatory features
2246:
2238:Direct3D 12 levels
2117:Shader Model 2.0 (
2107:Optional features
2095:
2080:Direct3D 11 levels
1930:
1810:Pluggable software
1790:
1698:
1611:DirectX Raytracing
1525:swizzled resources
1503:DirectX Raytracing
1307:First seen in the
1152:GeForce 200 series
1011:Direct3D 10.0
795:Microsoft Talisman
774:A minor update to
744:geometry pipelines
593:DirectX Raytracing
444:and its follow-on
331:, color blending,
134:
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7796:Text Object Model
7608:Windows CardSpace
7434:Windows Installer
7168:Video for Windows
5654:. Microsoft Docs.
5297:on April 30, 2018
4247:on April 9, 2010.
4229:on July 27, 2011.
3263:on August 5, 2011
3189:The Old New Thing
2997:www.microsoft.com
2523:– An open source
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2086:D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL
1690:
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1413:was shipped with
1377:Intel HD Graphics
1309:Release Candidate
1272:stream processing
1164:Intel HD Graphics
1096:Mandatory 32-bit
1059:occlusion culling
1029:graphics pipeline
987:Company of Heroes
784:Intel Pentium III
658:Lego Rock Raiders
568:; Tiled resources
358:planes, and even
321:stencil buffering
297:Microsoft Windows
286:
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206:Microsoft Windows
155:June 2, 1996
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7267:Entity Framework
7153:Media Foundation
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970:rendering engine
720:in August 1997.
577:Direct3D 12.0 –
571:Direct3D 11.3 –
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