From the course: Hardware Configuration for AutoCAD, Revit, and Inventor
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Using DirectX
From the course: Hardware Configuration for AutoCAD, Revit, and Inventor
Using DirectX
- [Instructor] You may have heard me mention the Windows operating system and the Mac operating system in this course so far, which are commonly known as the Windows OS and the Mac OS. Now for the purposes of this course, I'll be using the Windows operating system, the Windows OS. And for that purpose, my GPU, my graphics processing unit, my graphics card, will be using a thing called Microsoft DirectX. So what this does is it allows your GPU to work with Windows. And Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces known as APIs. So your manufacturers of your GPUs, your graphics cards, companies such as AMD and Nvidia will use these APIs to create their graphics cards, their GPUs. And these GPUs will use DirectX to talk to your Windows operating system. That will also be the case with your Mac operating system as well. And they are specifically for tasks related to multimedia, game programming, and…
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