Cyberpunk 2077, DX12 and Win7

[Blake81]

So, as anyone who's gone and purchased it must've already noticed, CP2077 specs say it'll work on Win7, despite being a DX12-based game. Not only they're the first game to do this (since WoW, but that happened back when Win7 was still supported), but I've heard from GOG Staff that the game will "ship with all required DLLs to make DX12 work as intended on Win7", and this has left me wondering...

Would it be possible for anyone to just take those DLLs from CP2077 and copy them onto a DX12 Win10 Exclusive (say, the HZD PC port) and make them work on Win7? It's no secret that the DX12 Win10 exclusivity is purely artificial and that DX12 would prolly run just as nice on Win7, but if this game came with something that broke that artificial barrier, could it be something that can be replicated and somehow made into a sort of "Unofficial DX12 Patch" for Win7?

This is something that may be good to look into; breaking DX12's lock on Win10 would ruin the biggest stranglehold that Microsoft currently has on the system.

 

[EroDoto]

World of Warcraft Supports DirectX 12 on Windows 7 - General Discussion - World of Warcraft Forums

 

[Blake81]

World of Warcraft Supports DirectX 12 on Windows 7 - General Discussion - World of Warcraft Forums

Yes, but like I said, that was from back from before the Win7 EoL thing.

Also, it may be interesting to point out at this lil' folder inside of the CP2077 install directory called "d3d12on7", which contains two DLLs inside.

Now, I'm no coder, so I have no way of knowing what's inside of those DLLs, but doing a bit of research, I also encountered this:

NuGet Gallery
| Microsoft.Direct3D.D3D12On7 1.1.0

Apparently, this is the same package that was included in both WoW and CP2077, and is seemingly compiled into their .exe files. So, I can't help but wonder... could it be possible to use this to create some kind of "Patching Tool" that allowed us to somehow apply this compatibility addon to games that don't have it? It'd be something worthy of looking into...