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2. Free and open-source graphics device driver - Wikipedia

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   A free and open-source graphics device driver is a software stack which controls computer-graphics hardware and supports graphics-rendering application programming interfaces (APIs) and is released under a free and open-source software license. Graphics device drivers are written for specific hardware to work within a specific operating system ...

3. Windows Display Driver Model - Wikipedia

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   Display drivers in Windows Vista and Windows 7 can choose to either adhere to WDDM or to XDDM. With the removal of XDDM from Windows 8, however, WDDM became the only option. WDDM provides the functionality required to render the desktop and applications using Desktop Window Manager, a compositing window manager running on top of Direct3D.

4. DirectX - Wikipedia

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   In order to achieve backwards compatibility, DirectX in Windows Vista contains several versions of Direct3D: [36] Direct3D 9: emulates Direct3D 9 behavior as it was on Windows XP. Details and advantages of Vista's Windows Display Driver Model are hidden from the application if WDDM drivers are installed. This is the only API available if there ...

5. Windows Driver Kit - Wikipedia

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   The Windows Driver Kit ( WDK) is a software toolset from Microsoft that enables the development of device drivers for the Microsoft Windows platform. [1] It includes documentation, samples, build environments, and tools for driver developers. [2] A complete toolset for driver development also need the following: a compiler Visual Studio ...

6. Technical features new to Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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   A new user-mode driver model called the User-Mode Driver Framework. In Windows Vista, WDDM display drivers have two components, a kernel mode driver (KMD) that is very streamlined, and a user-mode driver that does most of the intense computations. With this model, most of the code is moved out of kernel mode.

7. Windows Driver Model - Wikipedia

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   Network device drivers for Windows XP use NDIS 5.x and may work with subsequent Windows operating systems, but for performance reasons network device drivers should implement NDIS 6.0 or higher. Similarly, WDDM is the driver model for Windows Vista and up, which replaces XPDM used in graphics drivers.