Older generation GPUs and CPUs do not support DirectX 12, which can be causing the issue. Corrupted game files can also either refuse to detect DirectX 12 or cause errors with the driver.

NVIDIA released Game Ready and Studio Drivers today that bring full support for DirectX 12 Ultimate. The drivers also bring support for hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling.

Microsoft heard feedback from Blizzard that features like multi-threading in DirectX 12 were bringing substantial framerate improvements to World of Warcraft on Windows 10.

Microsoft is offering more support to studios looking to port DirectX 12 games to Windows 7. This should ensure more games get the API on the older OS.

DirectX 12 on Xbox One Smarter Graphics Rendering On the Xbox One, DirectX 12 could bring about meaningful improvements to its games and the system as a whole.

If DirectX 12 can drop my PC's total power consumption by 20 or 30 watts -- about $10-20 per year -- then I can buy a couple more Steam games when they're on sale!

What's the difference between DirectX 12 and AMD's Mantle? Why should you even care? Here's the answers you need to know.

Both versions of DirectX are great, but DirectX 12 is the newer version and as such, it comes with feature not found in DirectX 11.

Your PC is either DirectX 12 Ultimate-ready, or you’re not a real gamer Microsoft's Xbox Game Bar update for the PC includes a DirectX 12 Ultimate checker, as well as a resource monitor.