In most cases, a DirectX error manifests itself in the form of startup error messages in a program or a game: file not found, unavailable, not installed, etc. Starting with Windows XP, here you can see the compatibility of DirectX releases:Īs we see, the most universal is Windows 10 – it can work with all DirectX versions. We will not consider how to fix DirectX versions prior to 8.0, as those versions of Windows are no longer in use. Many versions of DirectX have been released, the first version (1.0) was released in 1995. Each Windows generation contains it by default, as a preinstalled system program. DirectX is a suite of APIs by Microsoft for handling multimedia – graphics, sounds, videos, etc.
