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 ...

One of the sticking points hampering adoption of Intel's Arc GPUs has been its performance in older titles, particularly those using much older versions of the DirectX API. You could argue that it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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What just happened? One of Intel Arc's most significant flaws is its performance within games using the DirectX 9 API. Some competing cards can outperform it by over 100 percent. However, this week, ...

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. Intel has ...

And not version b, like from the http://www.microsoft.com/directx/? Every single time I have tried to install 9.0b, and when I updated from 9.0 to 9.0b, 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 ...

ArenaNet just announced it was changing the minimum system requirements for Guild Wars 2. With these changes, Guild Wars 2 hopes to improve its graphical fidelity over time.Pretty soon, Guild Wars 2 ...