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 ...

DirectX 9 games enjoy a massive FPS boost with the new driver, including over 2x performance increase in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu.

Upon launch, Intel Arc GPUs could not run DirectX 9 titles natively and would be emulated on the graphics cards, causing a significant performance difference.

The latter move is more interesting, as it appears Intel will handle DirectX 9 support using DirectX 12's emulation capabilities. Specifically, ...

News of the DirectX 9 change comes from a recently updated support page on Intel’s website in which the company states it will drop support for the 20-year-old graphics API but offers ...

Intel has confirmed that it has ditched native support for DirectX 9 on its various Xe-based graphics products. These include its upcoming Arc discrete GPUs, Raptor Lake graphics, and newer.

The conversion sends 3D DirectX 9 graphics commands to the D3D9On12 layer instead of the D3D9 graphics driver directly. Once the D3D9On12 layer receives commands from the D3D9 API, it will convert ...

After 20 years of support, DirectX 9 is on the way out for some systems with Intel graphics. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...

Intel has officially dropped native DirectX 9 hardware support for its integrated Xe GPUs on its 12th Gen Core "Alder Lake" CPUs, as well as its upcoming Arc A-series desktop GPUs.

Games that officially use DirectX 9 include Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Team Fortress 2, although some older PC titles can also run with newer DirectX APIs. We’ll have to wait and see.

Games that officially use DirectX 9 include Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Team Fortress 2, although some older PC titles can also run with newer DirectX APIs. We’ll have to wait and see.