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  2. DirectX Diagnostic Tool - Wikipedia

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    It will also attempt to detect problems with these devices. DirectX Diagnostic Tool also displays information about the installed DirectPlay Service Provider. In Windows XP Professional x64 Edition , Windows Vista x64 edition , Windows 7 x64 edition , Windows 8 x64 edition and Windows 10 x64 edition , two versions of DirectX Diagnostic Tool are ...

  3. Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform - Wikipedia

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    WARP is a full-featured Direct3D 10.1 renderer device with performance on par with current low-end graphics cards, such as Intel GMA 3000, [2] when running on multi-core CPUs. [3] To achieve this level of rendering performance, WARP employs advanced techniques such as just-in-time compilation to x86 machine code and support for advanced vector ...

  4. Microsoft ScanDisk - Wikipedia

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    The program was first introduced in MS-DOS 6.2 [1] and succeeded its simpler predecessor, CHKDSK.It included a more user-friendly interface than CHKDSK, more configuration options, [2] [3] and the ability to detect and (if possible) recover from physical errors on the disk.

  5. Device Manager - Wikipedia

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    Device Manager is a component of the Microsoft Windows operating system. It allows users to view and control the hardware attached to the computer. When a piece of ...

  6. DirectPlay - Wikipedia

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    DirectPlay Voice was introduced in Windows Me as part of DirectX 7.1 for multiplayer games. [2] It is a voice communications, recording and playback API that allows gamers to use voice chat in games written to take advantage of the API, through a DirectPlay network transport session itself.

  7. Desktop Window Manager - Wikipedia

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    For Windows presentation foundation (WPF) applications (which are DirectX applications), the compositor renders to such shared surfaces which are then composited into the final desktop. [11] Applications can mix either rendering techniques across multiple child windows, as long as both GDI and DirectX are not used to render the same window.

  8. Free and open-source graphics device driver - Wikipedia

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    Device Dependent X (DDX), another 2D graphics device driver for X.Org Server; The DRM is kernel-specific. A VESA driver is generally available for any operating system. The VESA driver supports most graphics cards without acceleration and at display resolutions limited to a set programmed in the Video BIOS by the manufacturer. [15]

  9. Windows Display Driver Model - Wikipedia

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    It also supports new DXGI interfaces required for basic device management and creation. The WDDM specification requires at least Direct3D 9-capable video card and the display driver must implement the device driver interfaces for the Direct3D 9Ex runtime in order to run legacy Direct3D applications; it may optionally implement runtime ...