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What is DirectX, why is it so important and how will it continue to be a major part of every computer? ... To help the drivers, Microsoft built a special tool for the programmers to use, a tool that would allow them quickly communicate with the hardware by providing a direct access with the said hardware, just like in the DOS days… thus was born DirectX.
DirectX, to achieve his goal of “uniting” and simplifying every media of a computer, uses two main generic drivers, HAL and HEL. When you open up your computer, DirectX checks to see what your hardware is capable of doing on its own. If a feature is available, DirectX uses the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) to ship the required processing requests to the card, then gets the answers and sends them back to where they belong. In the case of an incapability of your hardware to support certain functions required by an application, DirectX uses the Hardware Emulation Device (HEL) to emulate (simulate if you prefer) that necessary function. In short, DirectX has two main methods of getting the job done. ...
Now, DirectX being a quite versatile tool, it has many, many functions.
Approximate Word count = 948
Approximate Pages = 3.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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