Microsoft DirectX 7.0 Technology at Meltdown 99
More than 500 industry experts from around the globe flocked to the Meltdown 99 conference at the Sheraton Hotel in Seattle, June 7-9, to learn about the advanced development tools in DirectX 7.0.
Microsoft DirectX 7.0 Technology at Meltdown 99 gets a June 1999 update. Microsoft DirectX 7.0, the new version of the powerful multimedia technology behind the Windows operating system, was showcased this week before an audience of the game industry’s most discriminating users of DirectX: hardware and software developers.
More than 500 industry experts from around the globe flocked to the Meltdown 99 conference at the Sheraton Hotel in Seattle, June 7-9, to learn about the advanced development tools in DirectX 7.0. Notably, there is increased support for hardware-accelerated transformation and lighting through a dedicated 3-D accelerator, freeing up the CPU for other tasks such as physics calculations or artificial intelligence algorithms.