If you use Google Chrome, you may need to confirm the download first to get the download started. Just one click and it will be downloaded to your computer. Here we make it easy for you to download DirectX 10. Some users who find that their Windows already has a DirectX version may hesitant of installing yet another DirectX, but it is perfectly safe as these DirectX versions can coexist peacefully. Mostly because users want to install a particular game or multimedia software that demands the presence of a specific DirectX version. Windows operating system generally comes with its own DirectX version, but more than often users end up with more than one version on their computers. The customer base grows larger because of it, giving more profits to Microsoft. By developing DirectX 10, there are more developers willing to create games on Windows platform and so the customers get a large more variety of games that they can enjoy in their spare time. To put it simply, DirectX 10 is a win-win solution for Microsoft, game developers, and end users. They can therefore put more focus on developing games instead of worrying about which hardware that customers are going to use to play their games. On the other hand, making games becomes easier for game developers since the interaction between hardware and software has been taken care of by DirectX 10. It’s all because DirectX 10 installation is made as easy as possible.

A casual user who rarely or perhaps even never installing anything would still be able to follow through the installation until it is completed. The installation is far from being complicated. What end users really want is to play games without any trouble.įortunately, end users do not have to learn all the technical stuff about DirectX 10 to make it works on Windows. They couldn’t care less about all the changes that took place. These information are not that useful for end users. In addition, DirectPlay dplay.dll was deprecated in favor of dplayx.dll.

Many components were deprecated such as DirectInput which was replaced with Xlnput and DirectSound which was replaced with XACT.

Directx version 10