DirectX SDK History

August 2005

October 2005

• XInput

December 2005

• Direct3D 10 Technology Preview
• New Sample: HDRDemo

February 2006

• Direct3D 10 Technology Preview update
• New Sample: MotionBlur10
• New Tutorial: D3D10: 14

April 2006

• Direct3D 10 Technology Preview update
• New Samples
  • ParallaxOcclusionMapping
  • MultiStreamRender
• XInput 1.1

June 2006

• Direct3D 10 Technology Preview update
• New Sample: SoftParticles

August 2006

• Direct3D 10 Technology Preview update
• New Sample: Skinning10

October 2006

• XInput 1.3

December 2006

• Direct3D 10 RTM
• New Samples
  • ContentStreaming
  • CoreDetection
  • XACTCodeDriven
• Updated Sample: GameUXInstallHelper

February 2007

• New Samples
  • DDSWithoutD3DX
  • MultiMon10

April 2007

• New Sample: Effect Pools

June 2007

• Direct3D9Ex headers
• DXUT with D3D9 and D3D10 support
• New Samples
  • Advanced Shader Authoring Workshop GDC 2007
  • Performance Workshop GDC 2007
  • ParentalControlTimeLimits

August 2007

• Direct3D 10.1 Tech Preview
• XAudio2 Beta: New Cross-Platform Audio API
• GDFTrace Tool
• New Sample XAudio2BasicSound
• Updated Sample ContentStreaming

November 2007

• XAudio2 Beta Improvements
  • XAPO
  • ADPCM
• New Samples
  • AdvancedParticles
  • GPUBoids
  • NBodyGravity
  • XAudio2BasicSound
  • XAudio2Sound3D

March 2008

• Direct3D 10.1 RTM
• XAudio2 and XACT3 RTM
• xWMA Decoding in XAudio2 and XACT3
  • WMAEncode tool
• New Samples
  • PIX Game Debugging
  • ProceduralMaterials
  • SubD10
  • VideoMemory
• Updated Samples
  • All audio samples using XACT and DirectSound have been updated to use XACT3 and XAudio2
• Removed DirectSound Samples

June 2008

• xAPO Effects Library
• New Samples
  • XAudio2CustomAPO
  • Autorun

August 2008

• Notch Filter Added to XAudio2
• Echo Effect Added to XAPO Effects Library
• Games for Windows Branding Tool
• New Samples
  • DepthOfField10.1
  • RaycastTerrain

November 2008

• Direct3D 11 Technical Preview
• 4 New Samples for D3D11 (Tessellation, compute shaders, multithreaded rendering, dynamic shader linkage)
• Updated PIX
  • basic stream and single frame capture for D3D11
• XACT3 support for the same xWMA bitrates as XAudio2
• Updated XAudio2 Sound3D sample

March 2009

• Technical Previews of Direct2D, DirectWrite, and DXGI 1.1
• Added XNA Math
• Audio Improvements
  • improvements to XAudio2, xAPO, and xWMA
• Updated PIX
  • support for Windows 7, DXGI 1.1 and WARP
• XNA Testing Tool as a replacement for XNA Banding Tool
• New Samples
  • XNAMath (Collision)
  • (Samples Content Exporter)
• Updated Samples
  • MeshFromOBJ10 (support for WARP)

August 2009

• D3D11 RTM (+ DXGI 1.1, D2D, DirectWrite)
• Effects 11
• Direct3D Compute Shader Extensions (D3DCSX)
• New Samples
  • Basic Samples (BasicHLSL11, EmptyProject11, SimpleSample11)
  • Shadow Techniques (CascadedShadowMaps11, ContactHardeningShadows11, VarianceShadows11)
  • Compute Shader (BasicCompute11, ComputeShaderSort11, NBodyGravityCS11, OIT11)
  • Tessellation (DetailTessellation11, PNTriangles11, SimpleBezier11)
  • BC6H/BC7 Texture Compression (BC6HBC7EncoderDecoder11)
  • DDS File Format (DDSWithoutD3DX11)
  • Direct3D 10.1 (HDAO10.1, TransparencyAA10.1)
  • Windows 7 Touch Messages (WindowsTouch)
  • Games for Windows Showcase S.6 (Direct3D 10 Sample) (10BitScanout10)
• Update Samples
  • DDSWithoutD3DX
• Games for Windows Technical and Test Requirements Update
• XNA Test Case Tool Update
• XNAMath 2.01
• DirectX SDK Utilities Updates
  • texconv10 replaced by texconvex
  • DXERR9 removed in favor of DXERR

February 2010

• Updated PIX
  • Improved D3D11 support
  • Mesh viewer CSV export
  • texture viewer support for:
    • DXGI_FORMAT_D24_UNORM_S8_UINT
    • DXGI_FORMAT_R24G8_TYPELESS
    • DXGI_FORMAT_BC1_UNORM_SRGB
    • DXGI_FORMAT_BC2_UNORM_SRGB
    • DXGI_FORMAT_BC3_UNORM_SRGB
• XNAMath 2.02
• Enhance XAudio2 voice reuse (see XAudio2VoiceReuse sample)
• XAudio2 reverb and mixing performance improvements

June 2010

• Updated PIX
  • PIX object naming via SetPrivateData
  • other
• Updated XNAMath to 2.03
• Version-less naming of cross-runtime data types
• Added D3DCreateBlob function to D3dcompiler_43.dll
• Added GetThreadGroupSize to ID3D11ShaderReflection
• Updated HLSL
  • updated (frexp)
  • added (printf), (errorf), (abort)
  • removed left-hand-side casting
• updated HLSL compiler
  • (/Od) implies (/Gfp)
  • added (/compress), (/decompress)
  • added (/Ni)
  • added @command.option.file feature
• D3D11 HLSL format conversion functions