2006-12-02 05:27:53 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
DirectX is Microsoft's API for doing nearly anything a game would want to do with the hardware in a PC. The idea behind DX is that it's a consistent, documented API for accessing hardware of any kind (from video, sound, joysticks and even the network) without having to know anything technical about that hardware. The downside is Microsoft has changed the DX API significantly over the many revisions, and many of those earlier versions were very buggy and difficult to program. ...
http://www.microsoft.com/directx/
2006-12-02 05:29:51 · answer #1 · answered by Paultech 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DirectX is a collection of APIs for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming, on Microsoft platforms. It is widely used in the development of computer games for Microsoft Windows, the Xbox and Xbox 360.
Both the DirectX runtime and software development kit are available free of charge. The DirectX runtime was originally redistributed by computer game developers along with their games, but later it was included in Windows. Game developers still often include an updated version of DirectX that prompts installation automatically after the game installation to ensure proper program functionality.
The latest release versions of DirectX are the October 2006 version of DirectX 9.0c, which is available for use on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, and DirectX 10 which is included with Windows Vista, but is not available with other versions of Microsoft Windows.
2006-12-02 13:31:07 · answer #2 · answered by BretH 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
direct x is mostly used for running games and ghrapicaly build programs...
its also used for system information checking and for detecting errors about video and audio software...
latest versions of DirectX are better for a PC....
2006-12-02 13:34:14 · answer #3 · answered by qasim khan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
directx is part of windows graphics system .. directx8 is an older version ... the latest is directx9c april release i think ..
2006-12-02 13:30:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋