DirectX 12 comes (partially) to Windows 7 for World Of Warcraft

Microsoft have brought some of DirectX 12’s performance-improving parts to Windows 7, ending years of DX12 being exclusive to Windows 10. World Of Warcraft is the first game to benefit from DX12 features including multithreading on Windows 7, and Microsoft say they’re working with several other developers to juice their games up on Windows 7 too. This isn’t the full DirectX 12 package and doesn’t bring all the performance improvements of DX12, to be clear, but it is a nice little bonus. Having the exclusive lock on DX12 was one of the main ways Microsoft nudged people towards Windows 10, after all.

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