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The System tab displays the current DirectX version, the computer's hostname, the operating system's version, information on the system BIOS, and other data. The DirectX Files tab displays information about the versions of specific DirectX system files , which are portable executables or dynamic-link libraries (DLLs).
DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) is a Microsoft API specification for the Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 platforms that allows video decoding to be hardware-accelerated. The pipeline allows certain CPU -intensive operations such as iDCT , motion compensation and deinterlacing to be offloaded to the GPU .
Windows Vista Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 8.1 Windows 10 DirectX 10: Unsupported; no longer receiving updates other than SystemInfo 3DMark 11: 3DMark 11 made extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11 including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading. It was released on December 7, 2010. [19]
Windows 7 includes GDI hardware acceleration for blitting operations in the Windows Display Driver Model v1.1. This improves GDI performance and allows DWM to use local video memory for compositing, thereby reducing system memory footprint and increasing the performance of graphics operations.
Windows 8.1 64-bit, Windows 8 64-bit, Windows 7 Service Pack 1 64-bit, Windows Vista Service Pack 2 64-bit: CPU: Core 2 Quad Q6600 at 2.4 GHz or AMD Phenom 9850 at 2.5 GHz: Memory: 4 GB RAM: Free space: 65 GB of free space: Graphics hardware: DirectX 10-compatible GPU: GeForce 9800GT 1GB or ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB: Sound hardware: DirectX 10 ...
During the GDC 2006, Microsoft presented the XNA Framework, a new managed version of DirectX (similar but not identical to Managed DirectX) that is intended to assist development of games by making it easier to integrate DirectX, HLSL and other tools in one package. It also supports the execution of managed code on the Xbox 360.
DirectDraw (ddraw.dll) is an API that used to be a part of Microsoft's DirectX API.DirectDraw is used to accelerate rendering of 2D graphics in applications. DirectDraw also allows applications to run fullscreen or embedded in a window such as most other MS Windows applications.
Microsoft DirectCompute is an application programming interface (API) that supports running compute kernels on general-purpose computing on graphics processing units on Microsoft's Windows Vista, Windows 7 and later versions.