![]() If you update your applications to use the latest version, the minimum OS requirement becomes Windows 7 Service Pack 1 with Platform Update for Windows 7. Windows 7 users must be running Service Pack 1 and have installed Platform Update for Windows 7, which updates Direct2D, DirectWrite and Direct3D to the latest versions of DirectX 11.1, as well as WIC (Windows Imaging Component, which you may be using to load bitmaps into your Direct2D applications for example) and WARP (Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform, a software rasterizer).īe warned that Direct2D 1.1 cannot be used in Windows Vista. ![]() In particular, you may want to use the new Direct2D Effects API, the new multi-threaded application features or some of the new methods available in the updated bitmap or geometry interfaces. If you have developed applications targeting the original Direct2D (which we’ll call Direct2D 1.0) which comes bundled with Windows 7 and is also available on Windows Vista SP2 with Platform Update, there may come a time when you want to use features from the newer Direct2D 1.1 bundled with Windows 8. ![]() Update 18th February 2013: Added information about Visual Studio 2012, removed a redundant library reference from the old DirectX SDK and added the library reference needed for the Direct2D Effects Framework. ![]()
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