Microsoft DirectX9

Microsoft DirectX is a group of technologies designed to make  computers an ideal platform for running and displaying applications rich in multimedia elements such as  3D animation, and rich audio. DirectX includes and performance updates, along with a lots of new features across all technology, which can be accessed by applications using the DirectX .
The latest version of the Microsoft Windows Gaming API release  Microsoft's powerful new High-Level Shader Language (HLSL) and features its advanced suite of design tools for the development of rich multimedia elements such as full-spectrum color graphics, video, 3-D animation.
DirectX 9.0 introduces significant improvements across its suite of APIs. DirectSound give new audio capabilities, DirectShow accelerates video rendering hardware, and Direct3D enhances low-level graphics programmability with new programmable vertex and pixel shader 2.0 models.