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. 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. Its price at launch was 199 US Dollars.Blizzard added DirectX 12 support for their award-winning World of Warcraft game on Windows 10 in late 2018. The card measures 241 mm in length, and features a dual-slot cooling solution. GeForce GTX 960 is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI-Express 3.0 x16 interface. Display outputs include: 1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 1127 MHz, which can be boosted up to 1178 MHz, memory is running at 1753 MHz (7 Gbps effective).īeing a dual-slot card, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 draws power from 1x 6-pin power connector, with power draw rated at 120 W maximum. NVIDIA has paired 2,048 MB GDDR5 memory with the GeForce GTX 960, which are connected using a 128-bit memory interface. It features 1024 shading units, 64 texture mapping units, and 32 ROPs. Both work, even though DirectX12 supposedly shouldn't work on Windows 7, but it clearly states in the requirements that Win7 is indeed supported regardless of the API. There are two API options, DX12 and Vulkan. The GM206 graphics processor is an average sized chip with a die area of 228 mm² and 2,940 million transistors. I'm actually running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit and the game runs on DirectX 12. This ensures that all modern games will run on GeForce GTX 960. Built on the 28 nm process, and based on the GM206 graphics processor, in its GM206-300-A1 variant, the card supports DirectX 12. The GeForce GTX 960 was a performance-segment graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on January 22nd, 2015.

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