Aug 06, · But always quick to detect the needs of the user, Microsoft found a way to offer game developers a tool for direct access to hardware resources in Windows.. Thus, in June the first version of DirectX was born, available for Windows 95 and NT Although it got off to a slow start, the popularity of downloading DirectX began increasing.9/10(K). Feb 20, · The Microsoft DirectX® End-User Runtime installs a number of runtime libraries from the legacy DirectX SDK for some games that use D3DX9, D3DX10, D3DX11, XAudio , XInput , XACT, and/or Managed DirectX Note that this package does not modify the DirectX Runtime installed on your Windows OS in any way.
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