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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.

June 2008 DirectX SDK Now Available

The June 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 significant stability and performance improvements to PIX for Windows, an XAudio2 effects library (XAPOFX), as well as several new samples and articles.

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

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

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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

Picking a 3D Object with the cursor using DirectX 10
Hi, I am using DirectX 10 and I have some troubles to select a 3D object with the mouse. I have no problem to use the method Intersect with a mesh. My... more
Comparing different states
I want to know if I can compare different states (in my case, blending states) by comparing two ID3D10BlendState-> _DESC structs? Is this fast and/... more
Binding constant buffer and other thing via Effects
In the Directx 10 FAQ there is the following question:  Is there a cost for binding constant buffers without using them? Yes, if you are not act... more
Alpha blending problems
I've been looking at alpha blending for a while now and it's been giving me quite a few problems. Right now I can use texture to make polys tr... more
Capping polygones help
Hello again, i tried to make capping in a lot of ways, but my best result is this  http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/3059/30005624as2.jpg How... more

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