AMD amazed everybody by saying there will be no DirectX 12, and now Microsoft has disappointed users on older Windows version by making DirectX 11.2 EXCLUSIVE to Windows 8.1 and next-generation consoles. Making users on older Windows version feel more miserable, the new update features the ability to allow a game use both system RAM and graphics RAM to store textures, which will enable DirectX 11.2 games to vastly improve the resolution of textures displayed in-game.