Prompted by a request from World of Warcraft developer Blizzard, Microsoft has added DirectX 12 support for Windows 7.

Windows 7 gamers are finally getting the performance boost with DirectX 12 support on the platform. Microsoft announced that it is bringing DirectX 12 support in a more limited fashion to Windows ...

To be clear, Microsoft isn't saying it has made DirectX 12 available wholesale on Windows 7. It specifically talked about the Direct3D part of DirectX 12, the part involved in 3D graphics for ...

Microsoft is offering more support to studios looking to port DirectX 12 games to Windows 7. This should ensure more games get the API on the older OS.

Even though there are just a few months left before Windows 7 stops receiving security updates, Microsoft has rather surprisingly ported a chunk of DirectX 12 to the decade-old operating system ...

Microsoft is porting DirectX 12 to Windows 7 on a game-by-game basis. The first game to deliver will be World of Warcraft, with others to follow.

Despite holding out for nearly 4 years, Microsoft has finally released DirectX 12 for the Windows 7 operating system.

DX12 finds a new home in Windows 7, with its first DX12-supported game in World of Warcraft.

DirectX 12 and Windows 10 have been no exception, but that's changing. Today's World of Warcraft update brings DX12 back to Windows 7, and Blizzard is apparently just the first developer to do it.

The Aero desktop effect in Windows 7 (or, more specifically, the Desktop Windows Manager, also known as the Desktop Windows Manager) will make use of the DirectX 10.1 API in order to improve ...

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Microsoft is making a very surprising addition to Windows 7 this week, with the support of DirectX 12 for the nearly 10-year-old operating system.