The DirectX Diagnostic Tool provides detailed information about your GPU, audio drivers, DirectX version, and other multimedia system components.

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Graphics Tools is an optional feature in Windows 11/10 that adds support to DirectX. If the problem still persists, you can try installing this tool and see if it helps.

Windows 10 also includes the DirectX Diagnostic Tool (dxdiag), which provides detailed information about the system’s DirectX components, sound, and video capabilities.

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The company's announcement describes DirectSR – presumably short for Direct Super Resolution – as a new DirectX tool that makes it easier to implement image upscaling across Windows devices.

As announced in a tweet by the DirectX 12 team, Microsoft's latest Insider preview builds of Windows 11 contain an update to the erstwhile Snipping Tool that "should be able to better display ...