Gamer's Alliance heeft een overzichtje gebouwd van de nieuwe features waarmee SinterBill ons met de release van DirectX 7 gaat verblijden:
- Visual Basic type library for DirectX.
- Visual Basic DirectX samples.
- DirectDraw support for stereo display devices.
- Direct3D support for hardware transform and lighting engines and cubic
- environment mapping.
- D3DX library providing increased ease of use for Direct3D.
- DirectSound support for hardware voice management and selectable 3D algorithms.
- DirectMusic support for DLS-2 hardware.
- DirectMusic Producer support for hybrid notation and editing of sequence tracks in segments.
- DirectInput support for WDM drivers on Windows 98.
- Enhanced game controllers control panel.
- DirectPlay performance enhancements.
- New sample applications that illustrate the use of the new features.
- New DirectInput force editing tool.
- Improved documentation, including. dynamic filtering for language-specific information
Volgens GA-Source kan de officiële release ieder moment plaatsvinden. Hopelijk gaat dat snel gebeuren, want Epic zit er op te wachten in verband met de release van de Unreal Tournament D3D demo.
