Game companies and publishers would be foolish to release games that would not run on Windows 7. While Windows XP is being faded out and likely less of a factor in late 2015 than it is today, Windows 7 will be the operating system that is installed on the majority of PCs. If Microsoft ships DirectX 12 with Windows 10 and does not provide access to some or even all of its new features to older systems, it is likely that history repeats itself. While there were a handful of games that supported DirectX 10 and even some that required it, the majority of games did not and used DirectX 9 instead. How did this turn out for new features and technologies introduced in DirectX 10? Not well. This meant that XP systems were stuck with DirectX 9. When Windows Vista came along, DirectX 10 was a Vista exclusive. If you have been gaming on Windows for a while you know that this would not be the first time for Microsoft to exclude older versions of the operating system from receiving updates.
While Microsoft did confirm DirectX 12 for Windows 10, it never mentioned if the new version of DirectX would also be made available to previous versions of Windows.ĪMD's Chief gaming scientist Richard Huddy mentioned in November that DirectX 12 would not come to Windows 7 and while it is likely that AMD received information about compatibility with earlier versions of Windows in the past, it has not been confirmed or denied by Microsoft yet.
Most modern games require DirectX to run even though some support other APIs as well. DirectX is widely used, not only on Windows but also on Microsoft Xbox gaming systems and even other devices such as Sega's Dreamcast console.
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