


ĭXGI 2 preview has been released with the Oculus Rift SDK it contains improvements for stereoscopic rendering. Windows 8 introduced a notably useful DXGI-based API called Desktop Duplication API for hardware accelerated video capture using DirectX. Place a check mark next to Run this program in Compatibility mode and select Windows 8 from the drop down list. Right-click on the setup file of the driver and select Properties. The newest version is DXGI 1.6, introduced with Windows 10 Creators Update and updated with Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. Download the latest display driver for Windows 10 from the manufacturer’s website and save it on your local disk. DXGI provides objects to handle tasks such as enumerating graphics adapters and monitors, enumerating display modes, choosing buffer formats, sharing resources between processes (such as between applications and the Desktop Window Manager), and presenting rendered frames to a window or monitor for display.īoth Direct3D 10 and OpenGL applications in Windows Vista work through DXGI.ĭXGI 1.1 added surface sharing between the various Windows graphics API. ( August 2014)ĭirectX Graphics Infrastructure ( DXGI) is a user-mode component of Microsoft Windows (for Windows Vista and above) which provides a mapping between particular graphics APIs such as Direct3D 10.0 and above (known in DXGI parlance as producers) and the graphics kernel, which in turn interfaces with the user-mode Windows Display Driver Model driver.

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