Directx 11 Now Available for Vista Through Platform Update

All 3 of you Windows Vista users out there can fire up Windows Update and download a new “Platform Update” that contains, among other things, DirectX11 support.

The Platform Update is meant for computers running Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Vista SP2, and is composed of four parts: The Windows Graphics, Imaging, and XPS Library contains DirectX 11, DirectCompute for hardware accelerated parallel computing, and the XPS Library for document printing.

The DirectX11 setup has been available in various beta forms since September, but this is the “official” release.  No redistributable, so it’s currently only available through Windows Update.  WindowsXP users are still left out in the cold with DirectX9.

via DailyTech – Directx 11 Now Available for Vista Through Platform Update.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .