Download Windows 7 DirectX 11

DirectX 11 is the upcoming windows graphic technology features that implement on Windows 7 to support wide varieties of games and display devices.  Beside support Windows 7, DirectX 11 also support Windows vista which vista user can download below DirectX 11 patches to replace the current DirectX 10.1.  However, Windows XP users cannot install DirectX 11.

“This version of the Windows 7/Direct3D 11 Technical Preview ships as part of the DirectX SDK and contains the following new features, tools, and documentation: Technical Preview of Direct2D; Technical Preview of DirectWrite; Technical Preview of DXGI 1.1,” the Redmond company informed.

This DirectX11 release contains the following new Direct features and tools:

• Technical Preview of Direct2D

Direct2D is a hardware-accelerated, immediate-mode, 2-D graphics API that provides high performance and high quality rendering for 2-D geometry, bitmaps, and text. The Direct2D API is designed to interoperate well with Direct3D and GDI. This technical preview allows developers to evaluate the API and write simple applications, with some of the more advanced functionality possible on properly configured machines.

• Technical Preview of DirectWrite

DirectWrite provides support for high-quality text rendering, resolution-independent outline fonts, and full Unicode text and layout support, and much, much more.

• Technical Preview of DXGI 1.1

DXGI 1.1 builds on DXGI 1.0 and will be available on both Windows Vista and Windows 7. DXGI 1.1 adds several new features.

Download Direct3D 11 (DirectX 11) for Windows 7 and Vista

Download DirectX 11 Software Development Kit 

Download DirectX 11 End-User Runtimes 

Download DirectX 11 Web Installer