| Subject | English | Chinese simplified |
| comp., MS | DirectX Graphics Infrastructure | DirectX 图形基础结构 (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 | DirectX 直接模式 (A rendering API in which client calls directly cause rendering of graphics objects to the display) |
| comp., MS | DirectX Media Object | DirectX 媒体对象 (A COM object that processes multimedia data streams from buffers allocated by the client) |
| comp., MS | DirectX Retained Mode | DirectX 保留模式 (A COM-based scene graph API) |