Microsoft: DirectX 12 Will Ship With Windows 10

Microsoft has just confirmed that DirectX 12 will ship with the recently announced Windows 10, which is slated for release sometime in early 2015. The company also revealed that the current build of Windows 10, which is available to software and game developers, is already running an early version of DirectX 12 intended for developers to use.

“The final version of Windows 10 will ship with DirectX 12,” the DirectX team wrote on their MSDN blog. “And we think it’s going to be awesome.”

“Game developers who are part of our DirectX 12 Early Access program have even more incentive to join the Windows Insider program.  These game developers will receive everything they need to kickstart their DX12 development, including: updated runtime, API headers, drivers, documentation, and samples, all of which will work with the Windows 10 Technical Preview.”

The team also announced that they have been working with the engine developers at Epic Games to offer DX12 support in Unreal Engine 4 version 4.4. 

“We’ve worked with Epic to create a DX12 branch on the UE4 GitHub repository.  This branch supports UE 4.4, the latest publicly released version of the Unreal 4 Engine,” they wrote.

It is not known whether the company will be bringing DX12 to earlier versions of Windows.