If you see the error message, The following components are required to run this program, while trying to run programs, primarily games, on your Windows 11/10 PC, then ...

DirectX is an API component, which is an application programming resource package that supports the computer by launching complex functions for playing graphics and other multimedia features such as ...

The most serious of the three warnings involves DirectX, the set of multimedia programming instructions used by most PC games, as well as other entertainment-oriented applications and peripherals, ...

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 ...

Microsoft has just confirmed that DirectX 12 will ship with the recently announced Windows 10, which is slated for release sometime in early 2015. The company also revealed that the current build of ...

Microsoft and partners from Nvidia, AMD, Intel and Qualcomm showed off the next version of the DirectX gaming API, DirectX 12, at the 2014 Game Developers Conference today. According to Microsoft ...

In today’s post, we will attempt to understand why Microsoft DirectX 9 legacy overlay planes don’t work with Miracast displays on Windows 11/10 with Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) 2.0 graphics ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. If you've been following Windows releases closely over the past decade, the news that DirectX 12 will ...

Gamers stubbornly hanging on to Windows 7 and refusing to upgrade to Windows 10 may soon be able to play ray tracing-enabled titles on Microsoft’s older platform. The company is expanding its efforts ...