Microsoft DirectX is a group of technologies designed to make Windows based computers an ideal platform for running and displaying applications rich in multimedia elements such as full color graphics video 3D animation and rich audio DirectX includes security and performance updates along with many new features across all technologies which can be accessed by applications using the DirectX APIs At the core of DirectX are its application programming interfaces or APIs The APIs act as a kind of bridge for the hardware and the software to quot talk quot to each other
The DirectX APIs give multimedia applications access to the advanced features of high performance hardware such as three dimensional 3 D graphics acceleration chips and sound cards They control low level functions including two dimensional 2 D graphics acceleration support for input devices such as joysticks keyboards and mice and control of sound mixing and sound output
Because of DirectX what you experience with your computer is better 3 D graphics and immersive music and audio effects