
Officially Windows 7 RTM is not supported. VS 2019 can support targeting Windows 7 Service Pack 1 for Win32 desktop development. For the details on handling DirectX 11.0, see this blog post. My Win32 templates assume you have DirectX 11.1 these days. Most any Windows 7 system that's updated from Windows Update should have it. Basically this means you won't get D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_11_1. Windows 7 can support DirectX 11.1 "software features" but not "hardware features" with KB2670838. I maintain a number of similar templates for UWP and Win32 for DirectX 11 & DirectX 12 on GitHub. Learn more.As noted by Simon in the comments, the "DirectX" templates built-in to VS 2019 are for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps only which requires Windows 10. Note: Alternatively, you can use an external graphics processor with Mac. It is recommended that your Mac has a dedicated PCIe graphics adapter: To check what Processor and Graphics your Mac equipped with, go to > About This Mac > System Report. Note: macOS 10.15 Catalina is recommended for the best graphics performance (due to improved Apple Metal performance). Most of DirectX 11 games are hardware stressful applications, thus their performance is directly related to Mac hardware (GPU, CPU and hard disk). If you want to enable Shared Applications and Shared Profile, visit Options tab > "Sharing" and "Applications" settings respectively. Note: This profile changes macOS and Windows sharing settings. Open virtual machine's configuration > click "Change." button > select "Games only" profile > click OK.To ensure that your Windows virtual machine shows the best performance, please follow the steps below:

macOS 10.14.4 and later, macOS 10.15 and later.Play many favorite games including Madden 19, FIFA 19, Anno 2205, Railway Empire, Space Engineers, Frostpunk, Risk of Rain 2, Age of Empires: Definitive Edition, Crysis 3 and many more. With DirectX 11 you can run Windows applications including Autodesk 3ds Max 2020, Autodesk Revit 2020, Lumion, ArcGIS Pro 2.3, Master Series and more. If you upgrade to Parallels Desktop 15 from earlier versions, DirectX 11 will become available automatically in Windows after installing new Parallels Tools. DirectX 11 support is introduced in Parallels Desktop 15 for Mac and later by default.
