Gamers stubbornly hanging on to Windows 7 and refusing to upgrade to Windows 10 may soon be able to play ray tracing-enabled titles on Microsoft’s older platform. The company is expanding its efforts ...

DirectX 12 works on Windows 7, but that wasn’t always the case. Microsoft originally only supported the newest graphics API on Windows 10 and Windows 8. But the company expanded that to Windows 7 ...

When Microsoft launched Windows 10, it made its stance on DirectX 12 clear: Windows 10 would be the only OS that supported the company's latest API, period. For years, the company stuck to this stance ...

You might have seen reports circulating that Windows 7 won't support DirectX 12, Microsoft's next, "low level" graphics API that will introduce several improvements to existing graphics cards and the ...