Microsoft has revealed that the user mode Direct3D12 runtime has been ported to Windows 7, bringing some of the DirectX 12 performance improvements to those on the older operating system.
One of the bigger advantages that Windows 10 boasted over its predecessors, especially for gaming, is that it’s the only version of Windows to support the new DirectX 12 runtime. The new version offers significant performance improvements thanks to better support for things such as multi-threading. Today, however, Microsoft has toned down the differences between Windows 10 and 7 by porting over parts of DirectX 12 to the older OS, despite the fact that it’s set to stop being supported in less than a year.
