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WHAT IS DirectX and why is it important?
DirectX is an API, or Application Programming Interface. It acts as an intermediary between the software code of video games and the hardware used to play them. Without DirectX, playing video games wouldn’t be as painless as it is today, but what is DirectX and why is it so important?
We've said that an API is software that allows games to communicate with hardware, but that's a gross oversimplification. After all, hardware drivers that communicate with the operating system can also be described in the same way.
What an API does is standardize the catalog of commands and functions that game developers can ask of computer hardware. It is a software layer between the game and the hardware that translates the two "languages" that the game and the hardware device speak.
