I guess World of Warcraft is just as important as SimCity.

Let that sink in: Microsoft backported Direct X 12 to Windows just for World of Warcraft.

This unblocks developers who want to take full advantage of the latest improvements in D3D12 while still supporting customers on older operating systems. Microsoft is pleased to announce that we have ported the user mode D3D12 runtime to Windows 7. : Windows 10 : Intel Core i5-10600K or AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT : 12 GB RAM : NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12 GB), or AMD Radeon RX 6700 (10 GB) DirectX : 11. After seeing such performance wins for their gamers running DirectX 12 on Windows 10, Blizzard wanted to bring wins to their gamers who remain on Windows 7, where DirectX 12 was not available.Īt Microsoft, we make every effort to respond to customer feedback, so when we received this feedback from Blizzard and other developers, we decided to act on it. This release received a warm welcome from gamers: thanks to DirectX 12 features such as multi-threading, WoW gamers experienced substantial framerate improvement. Blizzard added DirectX 12 support for their award-winning World of Warcraft game on Windows 10 in late 2018.

Directx 12 win 7