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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

It looks like Valve is making some big decisions regarding Counter-Strike 2’s support for legacy software and operating systems, as well as Mac players. In a recent developer update, Valve shared that ...

I'm running windows XP, with the native directx installation. I tried to run the ATI Dolphin Demo (I just got a new Radeon 9100 128mb) and it says "This Demo requires hardware support of ...

Why it matters: ReShade remains a popular choice among modders for enhancing visuals in various PC games through post-processing and other visual enhancements. Recently, the tool has also incorporated ...