Microsoft Officially Release DirectX 8.1 Final!

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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, 3-D animation, and surround sound. DirectX 8.1 includes the latest updates to all the DirectX components and provides support for the same great features that were provided by DirectX 8.0a, including the latest hardware multimedia features and API capabilities.

Download DirectX 8.1 Final for Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000 and Windows XP 25.7 MB

This download contains modeling package plug-ins for extracting skinning information for use with Direct3D®. It contains plug-ins for 3DStudio Max 3.0, 3DStudio Max 4.0, Maya 2.5, Maya 3.0, and Maya 4.0

The DirectX® 8.1 Direct3D File Exporters download supports Windows® 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000 or Windows XP 1.8 MB .

The DirectX® 8.1 Visual Basic® SDK contains the tools needed to build cutting-edge Visual Basic applications and includes the run-time, headers and libs, sample executables, sample source, documentation, DirectX utilities and support for Visual Basic development.

Note: You will need to install the DirectX 8.1 Developer Runtime in order to run the executables or compile any developed applications within this SDK

The DirectX 8.1 Visual Basic download supports Windows® 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000 or Windows XP 94 MB

The DirectX® 8.1 C++ SDK contains the tools needed to build cutting-edge C/C++ applications and includes the run-time, headers and libs, sample executables, sample source, documentation, DirectX utilities and support for C/C++ development.

Note: You will need to install the DirectX 8.1 Developer Runtime in order to run the executables or compile any developed applications within this SDK

The DirectX 8.1 C++ SDK download supports Windows® 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000 or Windows XP 127 MB

This ?full? DirectX® 8.1 SDK download contains the tools needed to build cutting-edge C/C++ and Visual Basic applications. It includes the run-time, headers and libs, sample executables, sample source, documentation, DirectX utilities and support for both C/C++ and Visual Basic® development. The ?full? SDK download does not include the symbol-file and exporters ?extras? downloads. This SDK release also contains the DirectX 8.1 developer runtime and the redistributable runtime.

DirectX 8.1 SDK for Windows® 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000 or Windows XP 173.7 MB