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Microsoft DirectX is a collection of industry-leading graphics technologies designed to deliver the most advanced, stable, and visually impressive graphics experience on Microsoft platforms. DirectX is comprised of best-in-breed runtime technologies, developer tools, graphics programming interfaces and languages. The DirectX standard is supported by a wide variety of consumer and workstation-class graphics software and hardware solutions.

GDC 2008 Presentations Now Available

The presentations from the GDC 2008 developers conference, including audio recordings where possible, are now available on the Presentations page.

March 2008 DirectX SDK Now Available

The March 2008 DirectX SDK download contains the tools needed to build cutting-edge, media-rich, interactive applications. It includes run-times, headers and libraries, samples, documentation, utilities, and support for C++ development. This SDK includes RTM releases of Direct3D 10.1, XAudio2, and XACT3. In addition, Visual Studio 2008 is now supported, as well as several new and updated samples.

Gamefest 2007 Slides

We are delighted to now offer you slides and audio recordings from the Gamefest 2007 Conference. Follow the headline link for more details.

DirectX for Everyone

For Business, Enterprise, and IT Pro

Learn more about what business, enterprise, and IT applications are doing with DirectX.

For Consumer Application Developers

Find out more about what consumer application developers are doing with DirectX.

For Gamers

For the latest news on DirectX 10 games and downloads; check out what we have to offer!

For Game Developers

XNA is an industry leading solution for game developers offering: software, services, resources, and communities.

For Workstation Professionals

For 3D animation, workstation and CAD engineering applications.

Direct3D 10 Forum

Difference between tbuffer and Buffer
Hi, what is the difference between tbuffer and Buffer<> object in HLSL? And how are they created and bound in the ap more

Tutorial01 question
I'm beginner using C++. I get a problem when i try using like in Tutorial01:Direct3D 10 Basic in SDK March. When i debug my code, i got an e more

Help - I'm overlooking something
For a school project I'm trying to draw lines on a screen, (constantly being updated), based on streaming data comming through the network.&a more

DepthStencilView
Hi, I`d like to know if a stencil buffer is created from DXGI_FORMAT_D16_UNORM and DXGI_FORMAT_D32_FLOAT  textures, or it only exists if i c more

Z Buffer or depth buffer.
First off, whats the difference between a depth buffer and z buffer? Second off, how do you create these in Direct3D 10?

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