
The updated WoW game is now available as game patch 8.1.5 for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth. This unblocks developers who want to take full advantage of the latest improvements in D3D12 while still supporting customers on older operating systems." It went on to explain that "we have ported the user mode D3D12 runtime to Windows 7. "At Microsoft, we make every effort to respond to customer feedback, so when we received this feedback from Blizzard and other developers, we decided to act on it," wrote the Windows developer on its blog. DX12 is a Windows 10 exclusive but Blizzard asked Microsoft what it could do to improve the gaming experience for Windows 7 users. However, both developers and gamers have been very pleased with the "substantial framerate improvement," from use of DX12 with the game. Blizzard only just added support for Microsoft's latest DirectX API to WoW late last year. I have found no other software backup solution on Windows 7/8.1/or 10 I can really rely on to recover my OS and disk with reasonable time and little effort.News comes via the Microsoft Developer Blog that Blizzard has added support for DirectX 12 (DX12) to the version of World of Warcraft (WoW) available for Windows 7 users. I use Clonezilla as my backup solution now. I advise people who want to protect their Windows 7 hard drive and installation to purchase a new hard drive and download an run Clonezilla ( Clonezilla - About ) to make an exact copy of their Windows 7 installation now, and keep it somewhere safe. I really hope this is not going to be another GWX patch upgrade story where it just forces the upgrade to Windows 10 without asking unless you stop it, and gives no reliable working option to roll back or deletes your 'roll back' data within a day or so. I see Microsoft are installing patches in Windows 7 updates now warning people of the EOL and requesting you update to Windows 10. Only thing people can do is to stay on Windows 7 and do not upgrade to Windows 10 even after Windows 7 is completely EOL. Ĭurrently I have to modify code and makefiles just to compile a GUI so I can monitor and control my AMD GPU's in Ubuntu.įor Nvida GPU I click a button in driver selection for Nvidia Proprietary Driver update and I get a working Nvidia GUI very similar to Nvidia Control Panel features in Windows. Temporary GUI Solution to monitor your AMD GPU's for AMDGPU & AMDGPUPRO Drivers on Ubuntu 16.04.

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Linux is only alternative to Windows 10 now if you have AMD cards.but AMD need a GUI and easier driver install versus Nvidia cards on Linux.
