- APIs all
began with "
Direct", such as Direct3D,
DirectDraw,
DirectMusic,
DirectPlay,
DirectSound, and so forth. The name
DirectX was
coined as a shorthand...
-
DirectX Raytracing (DXR) is a
feature introduced in Microsoft's
DirectX 12 that
implements ray tracing, for
video graphic rendering. DXR was released...
- synthesizers.
DirectX plugins can be
developed in C++
using Microsoft's
DirectX SDK, Sony's
Audio Plug-In
Development Kit or Cakewalk's
DirectX Wizard. There...
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DirectX Diagnostic Tool (DxDiag) is a
diagnostics tool used to test
DirectX functionality and
troubleshoot video- or sound-related
hardware problems....
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DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) is a
Microsoft API
specification for the
Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360
platforms that
allows video decoding to be...
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DirectX Media is a set of multimedia-related APIs for
Microsoft Windows complementing DirectX.
Retained Mode was used by a
variety of
applications and...
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Managed DirectX (MDX) is Microsoft's
deprecated API for
DirectX programming on .NET Framework. MDX can be used from any
language on .NET
Framework (via...
-
personal computer components,
using variations of
Microsoft Windows and
DirectX as its
operating system to
support games and
media playback, and featuring...
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DirectX Graphics Infrastructure (DXGI) is a user-mode
component of
Microsoft Windows (for
Windows Vista and above)
which provides a
mapping between particular...
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shader language for
DirectX 9 and
higher and Xbox game consoles. It is
related to Nvidia's Cg, but is only
supported by
DirectX and Xbox. HLSL programs...
