So quick question, all the benchmarks I read and all the games I have run either DX9 or DX11. What ever happened to DX10 and DX10.1? Is there a reason those technologies were never really explored?

Intel has rearchitected its Arc GPU drivers for DirectX 9, with promises of big performance gains in games like CS:GO. Intel has rearchitected its Arc GPU drivers for DirectX 9, with promises of big ...

Microsoft has released the beta of its first major revision of DirectX since DirectX 8 was released in late 2000. Like DX8, which introduced support for the programmable shader effects that were a ...

is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Intel is removing native support for DirectX ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. In its place, Intel ...

Microsoft has addressed a known issue causing apps using Direct3D 9 to experience problems after installing April 2022 cumulative updates, including crashes and errors on systems using certain GPUs.

In today’s post, we will provide a description of why video playback may fail when DirectX 9 overlays are required in Windows – and then offer the workaround to resolve the issue. DirectX is a set of ...

Driver update in System Updates. Operating system support: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP. This download includes the complete Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Software Development Kit (SDK). The SDK contains all DirectX ...

Without going into too much irrelevant detail, I want to reinstall DirectX 9. I have downladed the DirectX package (both "websetup" and the "redist" version ) and tried to install it, but after ...