Directx In Microsoft Vs Mac
-->While DirectX is ubiquitous on the PC platform, especially for games, Microsoft has never converted the technology to work on the Mac. MacDX isn't going to appear on your Mac as a piece of software.
This content focuses on using DirectX in a Win32 application. For information on using DirectX in a UWP application, see the Windows 10 game development guide (UWP).
Jun 26, 2015 CodeWeavers is bringing DirectX 11 to Linux Wine already supports DirectX 9 very well, but many new games no longer support DirectX 9 and rely on newer versions of Microsoft. Sep 22, 2015 Wine has its own directX implementation. Installing MS DirectX is not a good idea ad can actually break things or make things run worse. It can help with some games, but you shouldn't do it unless the game will not work without it. That doesn't mean the game says it wants directx that you should install it. You should only install it if, and only if the directX in Wine is not working right. Microsoft DirectX graphics provides a set of APIs that you can use to create games and other high-performance multimedia apps. DirectX graphics includes support for high-performance 2-D and 3-D graphics. Build high-performance 2D and 3D games in DirectX to run on a variety of devices in the Windows family, including desktops, tablets, and phones. Visual Studio offers a great set of tools for developing DirectX games, from writing shader code and designing assets, to debugging and profiling graphics—all in the same familiar Visual Studio IDE.
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| Topic | Description |
|---|---|
| Getting Started with DirectX graphics | Microsoft DirectX graphics provides a set of APIs that you can use to create games and other high-performance multimedia apps. DirectX graphics includes support for high-performance 2-D and 3-D graphics. |
| Programming DirectX with COM | The Microsoft Component Object Model (COM) is an object-oriented programming model used by several technologies, including the bulk of the DirectX API surface. |
| Direct2D | Direct2D is a hardware-accelerated, immediate-mode, 2-D graphics API that provides high performance and high-quality rendering for 2-D geometry, bitmaps, and text. |
| Direct3D | Direct3D enables you to create 3-D graphics for games and scientific apps. |
| DXCore | DXCore is an adapter enumeration API for graphics and compute devices, so some of its facilities overlap with those of DXGI. |
| DirectWrite | DirectWrite supports high-quality text rendering, resolution-independent outline fonts, and full Unicode text and layouts. |
| DirectXMath | DirectXMath provides an optimal and portable interface for arithmetic and linear algebra operations on single-precision floating-point vectors (2D, 3D, and 4D) or matrices (3×3 and 4×4). |
| windowsnumerics.h APIs | The windowsnumerics.h header file defines C++ vector and matrix types in the Windows.Foundation.Numerics namespace. |
| Classic DirectX Graphics | Microsoft DirectX graphics technologies that are currently minimally used. We do not recommend using these classic DirectX graphics technologies for new apps. |
| Tools for DirectX Graphics | Describes tools for DirectX Graphics. |
| DirectX Graphics Articles | Contains technical articles for DirectX Graphics. |
| XAudio2 APIs | Provides a signal processing and mixing foundation for games. XAudio2 replaces DirectSound. |
| XInput game controller APIs | Describes how to use the XInput API to interact with the Xbox 360 Controller when it is connected to a Windows computer. XInput replaces DirectInput. |