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It is meant to complement DirectX 12 as a higher-level alternative.

DirectX 11.3 was announced along with DirectX 12 at GDC and released in 2015.

It actually includes some features, such as draw bundles, that were later announced as part of DirectX 12.

DirectX 11.X is a superset of DirectX 11.2 running on the Xbox One.

It also added swap chain composition, which allows some elements of the scene to be rendered at lower resolutions and then composited via hardware overlay with other parts rendered at higher resolution. It added some new features to Direct2D like geometry realizations.

DirectX 11.2 is included in Windows 8.1 (including the RT version) and Windows Server 2012 R2.

DirectX 11.1 was also partially backported to Windows 7, via the Windows 7 platform update. It also features stereoscopic 3D support for gaming and video. It supports WDDM 1.2 for increased performance, features improved integration of Direct2D (now at version 1.1), Direct3D, and DirectCompute, and includes DirectXMath, XAudio2, and XInput libraries from the XNA framework.

DirectX 11.1 is included in Windows 8.

Since then, four updates for DirectX 11 were released: Deprecated since DirectX 8 in favor of XAudio2 and XACT3. DirectMusic: for playback of soundtracks authored in DirectMusic Producer.DirectSound3D (DS3D): for the playback of 3D sounds.DirectSound: for the playback and recording of waveform sounds.Deprecated after version 8 in favor of Games for Windows Live and Xbox Live. DirectPlay: for communication over a local-area or wide-area network.Deprecated after version 8 in favor of XInput for Xbox 360 controllers or standard WM_INPUT window message processing for keyboard and mouse input. DirectInput: for interfacing with input devices including keyboards, mice, joysticks, or other game controllers.Deprecated in favor of Direct2D, though still in use by a number of games and as a video renderer in media applications.

DirectDraw: for drawing 2D Graphics (raster graphics).It also contained DirectX plugins for audio signal processing and DirectX Video Acceleration for accelerated video playback.

DirectX Media: comprising DirectAnimation for 2D/3D web animation, DirectShow for multimedia playback and streaming media, DirectX Transform for web interactivity, and Direct3D Retained Mode for higher level 3D graphics.Microsoft has deprecated, but still supports, these DirectX components: