Fudzilla

Microsoft update borks Intel graphics hardware running DirectX or Direct3D

Software King of the World Microsoft has admitted that a patch it released last November might have tiggered Intel graphics hardware running DirectX or Direct3D. The issues were introduced with ...
Digital Trends

Intel drops support for DirectX 9, but it may be a good thing

Intel has now officially dropped native hardware support for DirectX 9, and this applies to both integrated Xe graphics on Alder Lake CPUs and discrete Arc Alchemist GPUs. This doesn’t mean that Intel ...
TechSpot

Intel is dropping native DirectX 9 support on Arc and Xe GPUs, going with emulation instead

In context: It shouldn't surprise anyone that Intel's Arc Alchemist GPUs don't come with drivers on the same level as Nvidia and AMD offerings. Team Blue has a lot of catching up to do, and now it's ...

Microsoft celebrates 10 years of DirectX 12: A decade of updates to the low-level graphics API but it's still not the master of all things rendering

With GPU architectures changing from being entirely graphics-focused and game rendering relying increasingly more on compute shaders, rather than classic vertex and pixel shaders, DirectX12 has gained ...