DirectX SDK
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Just a quick and probably stupid question. I am currently downloading the latest DirectX SDK, which I believe is for DX10. Would this require my end users to have DX10 installed or is it backwards compatible to lets say DX7? I know users can simply download a newer version, or I can ship the redistritubles, but I don't want to do this if it can be helped. Also, MSDN lists the minimum OS required for all the standard API functions, but there is no mention of any DX api's in there. Is there a similar documentation or even and add in to the MSDN?
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Just a quick and probably stupid question. I am currently downloading the latest DirectX SDK, which I believe is for DX10. Would this require my end users to have DX10 installed or is it backwards compatible to lets say DX7? I know users can simply download a newer version, or I can ship the redistritubles, but I don't want to do this if it can be helped. Also, MSDN lists the minimum OS required for all the standard API functions, but there is no mention of any DX api's in there. Is there a similar documentation or even and add in to the MSDN?
if you develop with the DX10 SDK then you do need to run with DX10 runtime I have never seen anything for directx at the api function level with regards to minimum OS requirements but microsoft does tell you what the minimum os is for DirectX http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/sdk/[^] I believe for DX10 it says: This SDK will install on Windows XP, Windows Server® 2003, Windows Vista RC2, and Windows Vista RTM using Visual Studio .NET 2003 or 2005.
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