Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms.
A set of API procedures that allow a programmer more direct access to the machine's hardware while still shielding him from a substantial amount of tedious machine specific coding. This is Microsoft's answer to the complaints of programmers that Windows was too slow to be a gaming platform.
Microsoft's multimedia and gaming extensions.
restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken; "She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes please"
Fix or mend (a thing suffering from damage or a fault)
Make good (such damage) by fixing or repairing it
the act of putting something in working order again
a formal way of referring to the condition of something; "the building was in good repair"
Put right (a damaged relationship or unwelcome situation)
1a1. What happened to the fuselage's livery...its an eerie, glowing blue
I think I'm gonna have to invoke a "repair session" using my FSX's installation DVD-ROM, because I'm really tired of this "weird blue glow" and "dragon-fly wing thing" when my B747 is airborne.
I was tempted to fire up the graphics features (buildings, scenery, etc) and this is what the Boeing factory (Kingsfield?) looked like. It brought my crummy HP Pavilion dv6000 to a crawl despite having 1.5GB main RAM + 128MB video RAM + DirectX-9. I don't know what to do next apart from getting DirectX-10 on board, do you?
DirectX 9 vs DirectX 10
Screenshot comparisons of DirectX 9 vs. DirectX 10 in the PC title "Flight Simulator X"