KitGuru Says: Going forward, developers will be able to support DirectX 12 on both Windows 7 and Windows 10. Those on Windows 7 should probably still consider upgrading though, as the near decade-old OS is nearing its end of life. This unblocks developers who want to take full advantage of the latest improvements in D3D12 while still supporting customers on older operating systems.” Microsoft is pleased to announce that we have ported the user mode D3D12 runtime to Windows 7. In a post on the matter, Microsoft stated: “when we received this feedback from Blizzard and other developers, we decided to act on it. The studio wanted to improve things further by allowing Windows 7 users to use DirectX 12, a request that Microsoft decided to grant. Last year, Blizzard updated World of Warcraft with better multi-threaded CPU performance. Now, those people will get access to DirectX 12 too.ĭirectX 12 support for Windows 7 has arrived, in part thanks to a request from Blizzard. At this point, while there are 800 million Windows 10 devices out in the wild, there are still a good chunk of users running Windows 7. "Windows 10 has critical OS improvements which make modern low-level graphics APIs (including DirectX 12) run more efficiently," the company says.Since the launch of the DirectX 12 API, Microsoft has kept it exclusive to Windows 10. Of course, Microsoft points out that Windows 10 packs more improvements to make DirectX 12 run games even better, encouraging gamers to upgrade. This unblocks developers who want to take full advantage of the latest improvements in D3D12 while still supporting customers on older operating systems.Īs of World of Warcraft's latest patch, version 8.1.5, Windows 7 users can now run the game using DirectX 12. From Microsoft:Īt Microsoft, we make every effort to respond to customer feedback, so when we received this feedback from Blizzard and other developers, we decided to act on it. The improvements were large enough for Blizzard, the developer behind World of Warcraft, to reach out to Microsoft requesting support for DirectX 12 to be added for its players on Windows 7. World of Warcraft added support for DirectX 12 in 2018, and it's resulted in a "substantial framerate improvement" for players, according to Microsoft.
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