| rdfs:comment | - DirectX is software that allows a Windows program to manage video and sound hardware in a computer. It is used for multimedia in games or Web pages running under Windows 95/98 and Windows NT.
- DirectX is Microsoft's multimedia API, most commonly used in game programming. It was made in response to complaints from programmers that Windows was not a good platform for developing games. It is made of several components:
* DirectSound
* DirectDraw
* Direct3D
- DirectX differs from the official X implementation, which is stolen from XFree86, in the following minor details:
* It isn't stolen. Theoretically, nobody can steal it as well, and practically, nobody cares. Occasionally, the Free Sockpuppet Foundation goes nuts and shouts, "You Wine heretics, you stole it all, you gave up to the evil empire, we're doooomed!!" but it's been quite a while since anyone actually listened to them.
* Oscar Wilde's favourite color (blue) shows up regularly as it crashes, along with a broken curse written in hex known as a "hex dump". This erases all files on your harddrive, so Mum cannot find your Porn!
* It has made Ctrl-Alt-Del a well-known key combo.
* It is object-oriented to the point of granularity, passing through your hands if not microm
- Direct3D is widely used in the development of computer games for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Xbox and Microsoft Xbox 360. DirectX is also used among other software production industries, most notably among the engineering sector because of its ability to quickly render high-quality 3D graphics using DirectX-compatible graphics hardware.
- It appears that not all Windows 7 pre-installs come with driver support for DirectX-10 compatible with DCU Online. Attempts to run the game from a fresh install on a new system can report errors of missing dlls (e.g. Xinput1_3.dll missing). It is highly advised that you don't try and download/install the missing components from one of the many "DLL Download Sites". Instead, please refer to Station support at Or obtain the official microsoft distrobution available at
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| abstract | - It appears that not all Windows 7 pre-installs come with driver support for DirectX-10 compatible with DCU Online. Attempts to run the game from a fresh install on a new system can report errors of missing dlls (e.g. Xinput1_3.dll missing). It is highly advised that you don't try and download/install the missing components from one of the many "DLL Download Sites". Instead, please refer to Station support at DirectX 10 WARNING: Due to a lack of updated drivers to support it, we currently cannot guarantee support for DirectX 10 for any of our supported cards. If you have already upgraded to DirectX 10, we recommend that you install 9.0c (August version) at the earliest opportunity. 9.0c will not over write DirectX 10 but installs alongside it and provides files that are missing from the DirectX 10 installation. Or obtain the official microsoft distrobution available at
- DirectX is software that allows a Windows program to manage video and sound hardware in a computer. It is used for multimedia in games or Web pages running under Windows 95/98 and Windows NT.
- Direct3D is widely used in the development of computer games for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Xbox and Microsoft Xbox 360. DirectX is also used among other software production industries, most notably among the engineering sector because of its ability to quickly render high-quality 3D graphics using DirectX-compatible graphics hardware. Both the DirectX runtime and software development kit are available free of charge, but are proprietary and closed-source software. The DirectX runtime was originally redistributed by computer game developers along with their games, but later it was included in Microsoft Windows. Game developers still often include an updated version of DirectX that prompts for installation automatically after the game installation to ensure proper program functionality. The latest release versions of DirectX, DirectX 10 and DirectX 9Ex, are exclusive to Windows Vista. Microsoft claims the reason for this is that there have been extensive changes in the Windows graphics architecture and introduction of the Windows Display Driver Model.
- DirectX is Microsoft's multimedia API, most commonly used in game programming. It was made in response to complaints from programmers that Windows was not a good platform for developing games. It is made of several components:
* DirectSound
* DirectDraw
* Direct3D
- DirectX differs from the official X implementation, which is stolen from XFree86, in the following minor details:
* It isn't stolen. Theoretically, nobody can steal it as well, and practically, nobody cares. Occasionally, the Free Sockpuppet Foundation goes nuts and shouts, "You Wine heretics, you stole it all, you gave up to the evil empire, we're doooomed!!" but it's been quite a while since anyone actually listened to them.
* Oscar Wilde's favourite color (blue) shows up regularly as it crashes, along with a broken curse written in hex known as a "hex dump". This erases all files on your harddrive, so Mum cannot find your Porn!
* It has made Ctrl-Alt-Del a well-known key combo.
* It is object-oriented to the point of granularity, passing through your hands if not micromanaged a small grain at a time in order to produce the smallest of inputs. Its object orientation is language-independent, but crappy in the language that's older than most of its fanbase. This introduced a new system called HeadacheX. Unless you manage to find a cool wrapper library, which will immediately slow down performance almost to the point when you forget about your games and enjoy a slideshow.
* It is easy to use. Seriously. You only need to download a 200 MB SDK and forever forget about these*** stupid->IID_IPointers. It's slightly easier to use than OpenGL without downloading the SDK, which is a significant argument in favour of DirectX as downloading an SDK is no longer a problem in the digital millennium. Until you try to port your application.
* It doesn't include a window management system, there is already one in Windows and we are trying to be as minimalistic as possible. You cannot find an X system distribution as small as 20 MB which includes everything you ever need, including Direct1D, Direct2D DirectDraw, Direct3D, Direct4D, DirectSound, DirectShow, DirectHide, DirectInput, DirectPrint, DirectCD, DirectUSB, DirectY, DirectZ, DirectPr0n, DirectMormon, DirectDirectX, DirectAAAA and all the other subsystems for "direct"-ly (through a small, small hardware abstraction layer called Windows device driver and Win32 API) accessing all imaginable hardware. Until the vendor once again misconfigures the driver. But hey, it's not Microsoft's fault.
* Windows Vista finally bundles a DirectX window manager called Aero, which is a significant improvement over the best X window managers on Earth, such as TWM. From this point, DirectX/Aero will support OpenGL natively, eliminating the extra layer called ICD, for a small performance overhead of 50%. (Some say that ICDs can still be used, but Microsoft predicts that nobody will want to have these beautiful, eye-candy window borders to be even temporarily disabled to run some lame attempt on producing a 3D graphics library.
* It does run on your new video card, which is a vast improvement over the official X. The only drawback is that by the time you cover the security holes in the only system it supports one true system, it will be obsolete by at least a dozen new video cards, and all the coolest DirectX business applications will refuse to run on your card, but will run just fine on the card immediately succeeding yours. Until you install that one.
* Unlike X and its evil NPOV'ized some-say-that-it-is-evil spawn OpenGL, whose goal is not to add any functionality unless the hardware vendors and end users are rioting around your company's headquarters, the goal of DirectX is to add as much objects, function calls, layers of abstraction and obfuscated code as possible, regardless of whether any currently existing hardware is actually capable of understanding what DirectX wants from it, let alone doing what's asked. This clearly shows that Microsoft is thinking of the future and introducing innovation, quantity obscuring quality. • Detect "non-genuine" products Installing Windows has never been easier easy Related technology: (Please select)AppleMS-UNOMS-DOS.NETBlue Screen of DeathCalculatorCTRL-ALT-DELDirectXHotmailInternet ExplorerUnNews: Microsoft unveils Internet Genuine AdvantageMicrosoft Products Online Technical SupportMicrosoft AccessMicrosoft KeyboardMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft OutlookMicrosoft SurfaceMS PaintPowerPointMS WordMicrosoft Word PaperclipMinesweeperMSNBCNotepadRegistry EditorTotal Fucking Asshole Server 2006Microsoft Immortal Life Support SystemTask ManagerWindows X-Console Windows Product line: (Please select)WindowsWindows BCWindows 1.0Windows 3.1Windows 95Windows 98Windows MeWindows YouWindows 2000Windows XPWindows Server 2003Windows VistaWindows Vista Pirated EditionWindows 7XboxWindows 2010Windows for PoliticiansWindows Error EditionWindows 8Windows 10 Image:Zeichen 101.png This copy of Microsoft Windows is not activated. v • d • e
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