DirectX 8 introduced Pixel Shader 1.x to Windows XP. An example would. Mount and Blade warband has a DX7 mode I think. Addictive drums 2 dll. Use Pixel shaders -Start windowed -Show frame-rate -Texture detail = 10 ( you are able rise this ) -Max frame-rate = 60. A Pixel Shader is a GPU (Graphic Processing Unit) component that can be programmed to operate on a per pixel basis and take care of stuff like lighting and bump mapping. A Vertex Shader is also GPU component and is also programmed using a specific assembly-like language, like pixel shaders, but are oriented to the scene geometry and can do things like adding cartoony silhouette edges to.

• Vertex Shaders

Vertex Shaders

Is it possible to use DirectX pixel shaders to create image effects for photos? I have a C application which includes kind of a photo database manager. It utilizes GDI+ for image processing and I want to offer the user some fancy image effects - which I would like to do via DirectX pixel shaders.