Once the Play button appears instead of the progress bar, press it.Īn authorization dialog will appear. Once all game files are downloaded, run the installer. Once installed, the game will take up 40 Gb of disk space. Launch the installer and follow its instructions. Press the Download Game button - this will start the download of the installer (137 Mb)

You can find a short guide to its installation, as well as the system requirements, below.Ĭreate an account and start playing Caliber straight after downloading.īy clicking this button you'll begin downloading the CaliberSetup installer. You can download it in one click right now and play it whenever you want. You may want to take a look at the DirectX Tool Kit tutorials.Caliber is a free online game. For XInput, you can use the basic XInput 9.1.0 which is built-in to Windows 7. See Microsoft Docs.įor XAudio2 on Windows 7 SP1, use the XAudio2Redist instead of the legacy DirectX SDK. That said, if your learning materials still reference legacy stuff like D3DX11, you can install it but beware there are some special setup details. You do not need the legacy DirectX SDK at all. VS 2019 comes with the Windows 10 SDK which includes everything you need for basic Direct3D 11 system headers and libraries. Officially Windows 7 RTM is not supported. VS 2019 can support targeting Windows 7 Service Pack 1 for Win32 desktop development. For the details on handling DirectX 11.0, see this blog post. My Win32 templates assume you have DirectX 11.1 these days.

Most any Windows 7 system that's updated from Windows Update should have it.

Basically this means you won't get D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_11_1. Windows 7 can support DirectX 11.1 'software features' but not 'hardware features' with KB2670838.

I maintain a number of similar templates for UWP and Win32 for DirectX 11 & DirectX 12 on GitHub. As noted by Simon in the comments, the 'DirectX' templates built-in to VS 2019 are for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps only which requires Windows 10.

Directx 11 free