New Graphics APIs in 8.1.5

[Levíathan-aerie-peak (Levíathan)]

@Phatdoobiee-frostmourne

I don’t have the DirectX 12 option in my system tab > graphics api
Just DirectX 11 legacy and DirectX 11
(Win 7)

@Kenzy-aegwynn

can anyone please help me lol my boyfriend is running windows 7 and he needs to update his directx to 12 how do we do this, we literally need a step by step of where to go because we are noobs lolol thx

(Just quoting to ping those who directly asked)

Hey all,

As far as DX12 in Win7, two things have to be considered:

1. Your GPU card needs to support it. Not all of them do. If the card doesn’t, you won’t have access to DX12.
2. If the GPU supports DX12, you must make sure that your drivers are current. Be sure to update them if you don’t see the option in-game.

For more info:

World of Warcraft supports DirectX 12 on Windows 7

After we saw the performance gains of using multi-threaded rendering in DirectX 12 for the initial Tides of Vengeance update, we worked together with Microsoft and our hardware vendors to bring similar performance gains to our Windows 7 users. We are pleased to announce that with today’s content update, World of Warcraft will now support DirectX 12 on Windows 7. This allows our Windows 7 users to take advantage of the performance benefit of using DirectX 12, which was previously only available t…