| Subject | English | French |
| comp., MS | DirectX Graphics Infrastructure | DirectX Graphic Infrastructure (The infrastructure that manages low-level graphics-related tasks, such as output adapter and swap chain configuration, and provides a common framework for managing virtualized graphics components and resources) |
| comp., MS | DirectX Immediate Mode | Mode immédiat DirectX (A rendering API in which client calls directly cause rendering of graphics objects to the display) |
| comp., MS | DirectX Retained Mode | Mode retenu DirectX (A COM-based scene graph API) |