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 ...

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 ...

In terms of average FPS, the performance uplift can range from a mere 3% to 30% all the way up to nearly 80%, depending on the DirectX 9 title. The new driver also promises to eliminate stuttering in ...

After 20 years of support, DirectX 9 is on the way out for some systems with Intel graphics. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ...

Great news for PC gamers targeting high-FPS 1080p. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Compared to the v3490 launch driver, the ...

The recently released Shader Model 6.9 brings Microsoft's official take on Shader Execution Reordering (SER) out of preview.

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 ...

DirectX is the secret sauce that allows most of the best PC games to run. It solves a problem for developers by offering a standardized solution to communicate instructions to your graphics card, and ...

2025 marks 10 years after the official launch of DirectX 12 for Windows 10. This came after a relatively frequent release cycle over the years, starting with one of the first ever DirectX showcase ...

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 ...