Directx 12 for Window 7

[harry samra]

Hi,
I just read that DirectX 12 wont be available for window 7, is this true ??

 

[theonerm2]

I heard that it wasn't going to be on Windows 7.

 

[13thmonkey]

I heard it was, just on '10 initially. Guess we wait and see?

 

[TechyInAZ]

From what i've heard, it won't be on windows 7 but it will be on windows 10. As for windows 8/8.1, they didn't say.

 

[harry samra]

Too sad, right ?
Microsoft you are one greedy company...

 

[theonerm2]

Too sad, right ?
Microsoft you are one greedy company...

Well Microsoft really hasn't said if Directx 12 is coming to Windows 7 yet. So it could still come.

 

[renz496]

Hi,
I just read that DirectX 12 wont be available for window 7, is this true ??

most likely. if you think about it not even DX11.2 is available with win 7. is it logical for win seven to get DX12 but missing DX11.2 (and the upcoming 11.3)?

 

[renz496]

Too sad, right ?
Microsoft you are one greedy company...

greed or not you can't expect them to keep giving new features to their old product. the thing is they making profit by making people upgrade or buying their OS. so they want people to upgrade. and win 7 already 5 years old while MS expect you to upgrade your OS for every three years.

 

[SGJguille]

Of course they are going to try to make people upgrade (or downgrade?), but the point is, that most gamers stick with windows 7, even if it's 5 years old. Windows 8 solved some issues, but it's still unstable compared to windows 7. If microsoft doesn't wan't to lose the PC gaming community, they'd better stop trying to make windows 10 look like an Xbox One for god sake, and focus themselves in integrating directX12 to windows 7 and make it be available for much hardware as posible. It's true thoug, that windows 7/8 users will get a free upgrade to windows 10 (will they? Is the greedy microsoft going to gift the OS to everybody who has windows 7???)

 

[JakeAlmighty]

Everybody who is on a legal copy of Win7 and Win8 has a FREE upgrade to Windows 10 when it is released. (as long as you take the upgrade in the first year of Win10 being released)

So you WILL have access via that to DX12.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/21/7866679/windows-10-will-be-a-free-upgrade-for-windows-7-and-8-1-users

 

[renz496]

to be honest i don't see the problem with DX12 being exclusive to win 10 at all. even if there is no free upgrade offered by MS. it happen with vista when DX10 being exclusive to win vista. it happen with win 8 (DX11.2). does anything change? so far there is none as far as PC gaming is concerned. people will complaint in the beginning but in the end they will move on.