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Data privacy and Microsoft's terrible Windows Update policy regarding that OS are just a couple of factors. There's a lot of issues I have with that OS.
WINDOW 7 DIRECTX 12 INSTALL
Eventually though I may attempt updating my current 7 install to that. In 2019 Microsoft announced the arrival of DirectX 12 to Windows 7 but only as a plug-in for certain game titles. I'm really only still on 7 currently because I have tons of apps I installed over the years that I'm just too lazy to reinstall + there's a few things that will probably not work in 8 that I may still want to use. You can install some third party tools to make the GUI (like the start menu) look more like 7's. Before creating the DirectX 12 device, a compatible adapter must be present on the user’s computer. In the next section, the DXGI API is used to query for DirectX 12 capable GPU adapters. are only available on Windows 10 / Windows 11, which you should use for development even if planning to utilize the Windows 7 support. The window is shown only after the DirectX 12 device and command queue have been created and initialized. (Windows update on 8.1 is more like 7's). While a version of DirectX 12 is available for Windows 7 SP1 along with a down-level XAudio 2.9, this is not a good development environment for DirectX 12 applications.
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(Age of Empires Definitive Edition is one example of a game that will run in Windows 8.1 but not Windows 7).Ĩ.1 is closer to Win10 but without the terrible Windows Update BS that Win10 has. I suggest you at least upgrade to 8.1 even if it turns out if your game(s) still wont' work. We’d like to thank the development community for their feedback. Dont' recall if DX12 ever got support in Windows 8.1. Now, Windows 7 WoW gamers can run the game using DirectX 12 and enjoy a framerate boost, though the best DirectX 12 performance will always be on Windows 10, since Windows 10 contains a number of OS optimizations designed to make DirectX 12 run even faster.