Intel Drops DirectX 9 Support On Xe, Arc GPUs, Switches to DirectX 12 Emulation
Native DX9 hardware support is officially gone from Intel’s Xe integrated graphics solutions on 12th Gen CPUs, and A-Series Arc Alchemist discrete GPUs. To replace it, all DirectX 9 support will be transferred to DirectX 12 in the form of emulation. Emulation will run on an open-source conversion layer known as “D3D9On12” from Microsoft. Conversion…
