Intel turns to emulation for DirectX 9 games after ditching native support
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Intel is dropping support for the 20-year-old API across 12th Gen processors and ARC GPUs. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Intel is removing native support for DirectX 9 (DX9) from its new Arc graphics cards and Xe integrated graphics on 12th Gen processors, with support now coming from emulation thanks to DirectX 12.
News of the DirectX 9 change comes from a recently updated support page on Intel's website in which the company states it will drop support for the 20-year-old graphics API but offers reassurance that applications and games based on DirectX 9 can still work through [the] Microsoft [Windows 10 and Windows 11] D3D9On12 interface."
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