DirectX Media is a set ofmultimedia-relatedAPIs forMicrosoft Windows complementingDirectX.
Retained Mode was used by a variety of applications and can still be implemented on systems newer than XP by copying thed3drm.dll file from an older version of Windows to thesystem32 directory (for 32-bit Windows) orSysWOW64 directory (for 64-bit Windows) to regain system-wide support.
