Directx12 no windows 7

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Given that the aging operating system commands a little more than 31% of the Windows OS market share, the move could also help spur adoption of Nvidia’s latest GeForce RTX graphics cards among Windows 7 gamers who previously had no reason to upgrade their GPUs given that they weren’t able to take advantage of the flagship ray tracing feature of the new cards.

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The company is expanding its efforts to support DirectX 12 on the aging operating system, which means that game developers will soon be able to port DirectX Ray tracing, or DXR, titles to Windows 7. Gamers stubbornly hanging on to Windows 7 and refusing to upgrade to Windows 10 may soon be able to play ray tracing-enabled titles on Microsoft’s older platform.

 

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