The DirectX® Team is pleased to announce the release of DirectX 9.0 SDK Update (Summer 2004) - Beta 3.
This Beta release contains the full DirectX SDK which features the pre-release of the DirectX 9.0c developer runtime. Areas of concentration in the DirectX 9.0 SDK Update (Summer 2004) Beta release are:
- HLSL support for Pixel Shader & Vertex Shader 3.0
- Effects Framework performance improvements
- Pre computed Radiance Transfer improvements
- New Sample framework
- New & Updated Samples (and removal of some crusty ones)
- PIX tool for better debugging of Direct3D applications
- Introduction of the Preview Pipeline for easier content creation
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