Editing Direct3D (section)

==Direct3D 9==
'''Direct3D 9.0'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb219837(v=vs.85).aspx|title=Direct3D 9 Graphics|publisher=MSDN|access-date=30 September 2014}}</ref> (released in December, 2002) added a new version of the [[High Level Shader Language]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb944006(v=vs.85).aspx|title=Writing HLSL Shaders in Direct3D 9|publisher=MSDN|access-date=30 September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2003/Jan03/01-22DirectXHLSLPR.mspx |title=HLSL in Direct3D 9.0 |website=[[Microsoft]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100827232558/http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2003/Jan03/01-22DirectXHLSLPR.mspx |archive-date=2010-08-27 }}</ref> support for floating-point texture formats, [[Multiple Render Targets]] (MRT),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb147221(v=vs.85).aspx|title=Multiple Render Targets (Direct3D 9)|publisher=MSDN|access-date=30 September 2014}}</ref> Multiple-Element Textures,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb147219(v=vs.85).aspx|title=Multiple-element Textures (Direct3D 9)|publisher=MSDN|access-date=30 September 2014}}</ref> texture lookups in the vertex shader and stencil buffer techniques.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb206123(v=vs.85).aspx|title=Stencil Buffer Techniques (Direct3D 9)|publisher=MSDN|access-date=30 September 2014}}</ref>

===Direct3D 9Ex===

'''Direct3D 9Ex'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ee890072(v=vs.85).aspx|title=Direct3D 9Ex Improvements|publisher=MSDN|access-date=30 September 2014}}</ref> (previously versioned 9.0L, with "L" standing for Longhorn, the codename for Windows Vista), an extension only available on Windows Vista and newer, allows the use of the advantages offered by Windows Vista's [[Windows Display Driver Model]] (WDDM) and is used for [[Windows Aero]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ee417756|title=Graphics APIs in Windows|date=August 2009|publisher=MSDN}}</ref> Direct3D 9Ex, in conjunction with DirectX 9 class WDDM drivers allows graphics memory to be virtualized and [[paging|paged out]] to system memory, allows graphics operations to be interrupted and scheduled and allow DirectX surfaces to be shared across processes.<ref name="gs">{{cite web|url=http://blogs.msdn.com/greg_schechter/archive/2006/04/02/566767.aspx|title=The role of the Windows Display Driver Model in the DWM|date=2006-04-02}}</ref> Direct3D 9Ex was previously known as version 1.0 of Windows Graphics Foundation (WGF).

[https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/direct3darticles/direct3d-9ex-improvements Direct3D 9Ex improvements - Win32 apps]