Sometimes to install and correctly play media files and start games, it is necessary to determine if your PC operating system meets, or you need to update software resources. To do this, find out which DirectX was installed on your computer. You can do this in several ways.
Why update DirectX
For full-fledged software, you need to create the appropriate working environment: install a package of missing drivers and related programs. For example, to be able to view videos in the browser, you need to install the Adobe Flash Player module, and it is necessary to install DirectX 11 to start popular games.
Continuous control of the relevance of the multimedia package, as well as the entire software of your computer, helps to avoid incorrect operation of the system and installing erroneous programs.
As a rule, when buying and downloading a specific program, it already has DirectX or the update function, if it is already present on the PC. If the update or installation of DirectX arise problems, you need to independently find out the cause of the incompatibility of the application and the OS.
How to find out the DirectX version by name
The modern operating systems DirectX already "sewn". Understand which DirectX is installed, you can software version:
- Windows 7 is installed paired with DirectX 10.
- Windows 8, as a rule, contains DirectX 11.
- Well, the latest Windows 10 is equipped or DirectX 11, or DirectX 12.
- If the PC is an outdated OS, for example, Windows XP, then, most likely, you are installed by DirectX 9. This version must be updated, otherwise most games will not even be installed.
Definition of the DirectX version using the command line
If you have previously updated DirectX or downloaded different versions complete with applications, find out the exact version only by the name of the OS will be difficult. Therefore, you need to use this method:
- Open the Start menu and in the "Find Programs and Files" row dial DXDiag.
- Or at the same time, clamp the "windows" + "R" key, after which the menu opens with the possibility of executing commands where you should also dial DXDiag.
- In the window that opens, you can find the desired information about DirectX.
Finding out the version of DirectX using third-party applications
- To learn how to do on the DirectX computer, you can in the built-in video card control panel. For example, you can take the NVIDIA video card. If you open the window with information about the system, information and DirectX information will be indicated. You can find information about the graphic editor in this way: "Start" - "Control Panel" - "NVIDIA Control Panel".
- You can also get the necessary information using special utilities, for example, AIDA 64 (the old name Everest). Find and download this application can be on the Internet. In addition to DirectX data, this utility has a lot of useful functions that you will definitely use.
Now you know how to determine the current version of DirectX, which is installed on your PC. It remains only to update it to the latest version if necessary.
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