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 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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft has announced that its recent Windows 11 update KB5012643, which was already plagued with known issues related to Safe Mode and .NET 3.5, is now causing problems in games and applications ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

VMware has introduced a new beta version of Fusion, its virtualization software for Intel-based Macs that lets Macs running Windows and other operating systems without having to reboot first. Fusion 1 ...