

Part of the reason for this is the fact that almost every game on the market has a configuration screen of its own. There are a few command line utilities you could theoretically configure, but you'll probably never have to even give them the time of day. It might take a few moments to get loaded, but once DirectX is installed it doesn't have a user interface worth bringing up or any other widgets that need to be worked with. Those who don't simply need to load one single bundle and click next a couple of times. Microsoft designed it to seamlessly install with many game packages, so you might not realize that you already have it.

Once you've installed it, you'll never have to think about it ever again.Įven if you've never looked at a piece of code you'll still be able to install DirectX.

While you might never need to directly talk to a piece of hardware, there are countless high-resolution computer games on the market that need DirectX to run. DirectX is an application interface layer that allows high-level software to communicate with physical hardware.
