DirectX 12 Agility SDK Downloads

Welcome to the DirectX 12 Agility SDK landing page where you’ll find links to Agility SDKs and other helpful info.

Check out our Announcement blog and Game Stack Live talk.

We also have a Getting Started Guide with detailed info for developers who want to integrate Agility SDK support into their engine.

Visit the DirectX Landing Page for more resources for DirectX developers.

Latest Preview Agility SDK

SDK Package	D3D12SDKVersion	Release Date	New features
SDK 1.706.4-preview	706	8/30/2022	Fixes a device creation failure on WARP (Microsoft Basic Render) in Windows Server 2022.

Latest Agility SDK

SDK Package	D3D12SDKVersion	Release Date	New features
SDK 1.608.2	608	01/03/2023	Header build fix Fixes bug preventing enhanced barriers enablement

Older Agility SDKs

SDK Package	D3D12SDKVersion	Release Date	New features
SDK 1.608.0	608	11/18/2022	Enhanced Barriers New minor features: Independent Front/Back Stencil Refs and Masks Triangle fan Dynamic Pipeline State: Depth Bias, IB Strip Cut See here for more information
SDK 1.606.4	606	8/30/2022	Fixes a device creation failure on WARP (Microsoft Basic Render) in Windows Server 2022.
SDK 1.606.3	606	7/14/2022	Shader Model 6.7 See here for more information
SDK 1.602.4	602	6/21/2022	Bugfixes Fixes bug in GBV to skip bounds checks on static descriptors already bounds-checked on the CPU timeline Fix false Object Deleted While Still in Use errors from debug layer Fix deadlock in debug layer while validating placed resource virtual addresses Fix crash in ResolveQueryData due to race condition
SDK 1.602.0	602	4/27/2022	See blog post for more detail New features: Relaxed buffer/texture copy alignment Support for copying between different dimensions of textures Delayed input layout and vertex buffer alignment validation Negative height viewports flip y-axis intepretation Alpha/InvAlpha blend factors Bugfixes Fixes a crash using GBV with shader patch mode TRACKING_ONLY. Fixes false debug validation output resulting from depth slice state being confused with depth slice state. Fixes a bug causing promoted COPY_DEST to not decay back to COMMON. Report live objects when encountering device removed from a kernel memory failure.
SDK 1.600.10	600	12/9/2021	Fix for an intermittent crash in runtime for apps doing multithreaded creation of raytracing state objects. For more on this release, see here
SDK 1.4.10	4	5/17/2021	Fixes a debug layer issue where some ResourceBarrier calls transitioning DEPTH_READ to DEPTH_WRITE were dropped
SDK 1.4.9 *	4	4/20/2021	DirectX 12 Ultimate, see here for samples Shader Model 6.6

*For this first SDK, this entry indicates features in our first SDK that are newer than what the DirectX team shipped in the Windows 10 November 2019 Update. For subsequent SDKs this entry is for new features since our previous SDK.