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It includes full color graphics, video support, rich audio streaming and the ability to run 3D graphics with polygons and pixel shaders.

Graphics processing, pixel shader, multi-threadingĭirectX 11 is a powerful collection of tools that allows people to create their own games. The best part about the DX11 tools are its security updates which will keep your computer free from dangers while also optimizing performance for running games or other apps with rich multimedia features. You may want to take a look at the DirectX Tool Kit tutorials.The DirectX 11 group of technologies is an exciting tool that can be used across applications to include multimedia elements, such as full-color graphics and video. For XInput, you can use the basic XInput 9.1.0 which is built-in to Windows 7. See Microsoft Docs.įor XAudio2 on Windows 7 SP1, use the XAudio2Redist instead of the legacy DirectX SDK. That said, if your learning materials still reference legacy stuff like D3DX11, you can install it but beware there are some special setup details. You do not need the legacy DirectX SDK at all.

VS 2019 comes with the Windows 10 SDK which includes everything you need for basic Direct3D 11 system headers and libraries. Officially Windows 7 RTM is not supported. VS 2019 can support targeting Windows 7 Service Pack 1 for Win32 desktop development. For the details on handling DirectX 11.0, see this blog post. My Win32 templates assume you have DirectX 11.1 these days. Most any Windows 7 system that's updated from Windows Update should have it. Basically this means you won't get D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_11_1. Windows 7 can support DirectX 11.1 "software features" but not "hardware features" with KB2670838. I maintain a number of similar templates for UWP and Win32 for DirectX 11 & DirectX 12 on GitHub. As noted by Simon in the comments, the "DirectX" templates built-in to VS 2019 are for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps only which requires Windows 10.