After the advent of very affordable computers, technologies began to develop much faster in various directions, and sometimes generate new ones, so now you can hear a lot of incomprehensible words in ordinary conversation, for example, DirectX. Some may ask you a question about where to install DirectX.
This article will focus exclusively on the DirectX graphics library: why it is needed, where it is used, by whom it was created, and most importantly, how to install it on your own computer. Our article is recommended exclusively to novice users of the Windows operating system, because the DirectX library works only there.
Why do you need DirectX
First you need to figure out what it is. For example, you start a game, and millions of bytes of information begin to be loaded into your RAM so that it is processed not only by the central processor, but also by the GPU. In addition, you need to read keystrokes, mouse position, commands from the operating system and much more. Maybe it will be news for you, but everything in the computer is processed exclusively sequentially.
The question is how to get the computer to do all this - the instructions for the computer are needed. If we ignore it, then the program code that the game developers wrote is the instructions. Now imagine that when creating a new game you need to do it all over again, which means literally "ruining" the years of your life, but there is no need for this, because there are special software, for example, the DirectX graphics library.
Programmers will connect it, after which it will be possible to intelligently use its resources to control processes, display graphics, and much more. However, on some computers this library is not supplied out of the box, so below we will tell you where to install DirectX. We remind you that the instruction is suitable only for the Windows operating system, under which, by the way, the library was created. By the way, it is also used in the Xbox console.
Where to install DirectX 9.0
If you want to install the ninth version, then you are probably using an outdated operating system, for example, Windows XP, so we strongly recommend upgrading to version 10, since the XP service expired several years ago, so the system is full of vulnerabilities. However, if you do not want to do this for personal reasons, then the instruction will be given below.
Installation instructions for the ninth version of DirectX:
- This version was developed at about the same time as Windows XP, so it can no longer be found on the official website, only the tenth or eleventh, all depending on the video card. Create the appropriate search query in the browser.
- Download not from the official resource, wait for the full download and start the installation.
- Accept the agreement. After installation, restart your computer.
Where to install DirectX 11 for Windows 7
It is worth noting that Windows 7 supports any version of this library, with the exception of DirectX 12, which was created exclusively under Windows 10 and is an integral part of it. Installation instructions will be given below, but if you do not want to download from the Internet, look for a disk from the box from under the video card, there must be a library supported by your video card, or download Windows 10.
Instructions on where to install DirectX 11:
- Go to the official DirectX website where you will be offered to download their product.
- Wait for the download process to complete.
- Begin installation while agreeing to the terms of use.
- The installer will find the optimal path, so just wait until the end and restart the computer.
Finally
We hope that after reading this article you understand where to install DirectX and why it was created at all. It is worth noting that video cards, depending on their generation, support different versions of DirectX, so even after installing version 11, only 10 can work, etc.