Nvidia has announced that all their GPUs which fall in the Fermi, Kepler or Maxwell architecture category will be compatible with DirectX 12. News is that if you will not have to upgrade your GPU to take advantage of the DirectX 12 for now. We’re super excited to bring them all to Win10 and DX12 - 1 yr free upgrade for Win7, 8.1!īut you're not walking down a dark alley for now. >50% of gamers today have DX12-capable hardware. Clearly not wanting to touch the subject of its availability on previous versions of Windows. On a recent post online they mentioned that almost half of the gamers will be able to take advantage of DirectX 12 and that they'll be able to upgrade to Windows 10 for free.

Hence we can only deduce that they want to wait it out with the announcement but they have in many places implied that previous versions of Windows might not be able to take the advantage of DirectX 12. Microsoft has been quite vague about the subject and no official announcement has been made on the matter either. Windows 10 will be a Free Upgrade - Nothing About DirectX 12 on Window 8.1

Gamer's have been wondering weather they'll be looking at an upgrade to DirectX 12 on previous version of Windows, namely Windows 8.1, 8 or 7, so here are some pointers and releases that strongly imply that DirectX 12 will be a Windows 10 exclusive. Especially, when it increases the performance and decreases the power consumption by an enormous amount. DirectX 12 seems to be bringing a lot of new stuff and capabilities to the table.

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