Gamers who remain on Windows 7 can now play World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth with the added boost of DirectX 12. Microsoft announced that Blizzard would be the first game developer to offer ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is making a very surprising addition to Windows 7 this week, ...

If you’re a Windows 7 gamer refusing to upgrade to Windows 10, Microsoft has some exciting DirectX 12 news for you. The company announced that DirectX 12 is finally making the jump from Windows 10 to ...

Microsoft sends word that it is bringing DirectX 12 towards Windows 7 (a year before going EOL). So yeah, hell froze over? If you have updated Windows 7 there will be DX12 and the first game that can ...

Back in March Microsoft DirectX 12 suitable for Windows 7 with World Of Warcraft. This initiative ever since has been respected by many but left others confused as to why there is no full DX12 support ...

DirectX 12 works on Windows 7, but that wasn’t always the case. Microsoft originally only supported the newest graphics API on Windows 10 and Windows 8. But the company expanded that to Windows 7 ...

Gamers stubbornly hanging on to Windows 7 and refusing to upgrade to Windows 10 may soon be able to play ray tracing-enabled titles on Microsoft’s older platform. The company is expanding its efforts ...

The company’s chief gaming scientist says players will need a newer OS. Update: AMD has provided an official statement to us clarifying the matter. “There have been reports based on a video of Richard ...

Poking around the fresh Windows 10 build last night, I found an interesting new feature that Joe Belfiore didn’t mentioned in his announcement post: DirectX 12 is already baked into the operating ...

Talk about sending mixed messages. Microsoft has recently reminded its customers that Windows 7 support is ending next year and is going to start nagging them to upgrade to Windows 10. At GDC 2019, ...

Microsoft has historically helped push adoption of new OSes along by locking gaming features - like new version of DirectX - to the latest version of Windows. DirectX 12 and Windows 10 have been no ...