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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When he's not battling bugs and robots in Helldivers 2, Michael is reporting on AI, satellites, cybersecurity, PCs, and tech policy.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I recently noticed that in Portal (or any HL2 game) the graphics settings reports that I am running DirectX 9 in both hardware and software. I am running a fully updated version of Windows 7, with the ...