Can the Win7 system install DX12?

recently, a Netizen "pony brother" asked such a question: I heard that WIN10 built-in Microsoft's latest DirectX 12, can bring performance improvements, even the old configuration of the computer, can also bring game performance improvement. Can my Win7 computer support DX12? In order to solve this problem, the following is a detailed introduction to the small series.

　　What is DX12?

　　DirectX , a DX version built into Microsoft's latest Windows 10 system, is a very important API update. DX12 is mainly to improve the driving efficiency, give developers more control, can better improve the game experience.

　　So, does Win7 support DX12?

The Win7 system defaults to the DirectX 11 version, and users cannot experience DirectX 12 by installing the system. However, Win7 users can support this by extracting the DirectX 12 installation package in WIN10 and then installing it in Windows 7.

　　Can Win7 install DX12?

To experience Win10 in Win7, you need to meet 3 conditions, one is to install DX 12 in Win7, the other is to support DX12 in the video card, and the last is that the game must support DX12.

　　1, Win7 installation DX12

There has been a share of the WIN10 preview version of the new version of DirectX installation package extracted, you can search the Internet to download. Believe that the official version of WIN10, there will be a computer master Extract DX12 installation package, for everyone to download, we can search for Baidu, here is not detailed introduction.

　　2, Graphics support DX12

Currently support DX12 graphics cards mainly include: Nvidia Kepler, Fermi, Maxwell structure, which is the GeForce 200 series and higher models; AMD GCN architecture, namely Radeon HD 7000, Radeon r200/300 series, Intel Haswell (GT3), Broadwell, Skylake core graphics card.

In short, some of the mainstream graphics cards are basically support DX12.

　　3, Game support DX12

With the introduction of the official version of WIN10, most mainstream game manufacturers will be updated in the future, I believe that many games will soon support, can support the latest DX12.