DirectX 11.1 Not for Windows 7
Microsoft has confirmed that DirectX 11.1 will not be available for Windows 7 and will remain a Windows 8 exclusive.
According to a report on Games.On.Net, a post on the Microsoft Answers Forum shows that an employee who goes by the name of Daniel Moth revealed some information regarding DirectX and its direction.
“DirectX 11.1 is part of Windows 8, just like DirectX 11 was part of Windows 7. DirectX 11 was made available for Vista but at this point there is no plan for DirectX 11.1 to be made available on Windows 7.”
The only difference so far that we have noticed is that DirectX 11.1 is able to bring native stereoscopic 3D support to games without developers having to program 3D with specific graphics cards in mind. This can only really be seen as a marketing plot by Microsoft to get gamers to buy into Windows 8 for the native stereoscopic 3D, right? Maybe Windows 7 doesn’t support it though, who knows? But all we know at the moment is that DirectX 11.1 won’t be available on Windows 7.
DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) which handle tasks relating to game programming and video on Microsoft platforms.
| Article Comments | |||||||||
| Well screw you too Microsoft .... | ||||||||
| At least it is useless. Stereoscopic is so crap anyway, no one needs it, just like Windows 8 itself. If only they released Halo 4 (and maybe 3) for Windows 8 only, like they did with Halo 2. That way I would be out buying Win8 now. | ||||||||
| Yeah the biggest feature really is the stereoscopic 3D which is something I don't really care about. There are a few low-level optimizations made that allow for faster rendering, but they are kind of negligible on current systems anyway. | ||||||||
| Lol that's unnecessary  ...Windows 7 is almost the same OS... | ||||||||
| Well, just to throw it in there.....XP is king. Only went to Win7 for BF3. xD I love how Microsoft tries to "force" people into getting their new product. It's not as if they don't have enough $$$ to get a team to add some of their features to their previous OS. Oh well... | ||||||||
| Microsoft, I have 3 words for you... GO GET F@%#'ed!! | ||||||||
| Lol I feel like I'm using a crappy Linux Distro when I use XP. Obviously Microsoft will do that, they want you using their new OS. They're a business. BMW isn't going to add all the new 3-series features into an e90 (even though I really wish they would). | ||||||||
