Intel Xe And Arc Graphics Lack DX9 Support Forcing DX12 Emulation

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Gameguru Mania News - Aug,16 2022 -

Intel Xe And Arc Graphics Lack DX9 Support Forcing DX12 Emulation - tech
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Intel has revealed that its upcoming ARC discrete GPUs will not natively support DirectX 9. Instead, the blue team will rely on Microsoft’s D3D9On12 interface in order to emulate DX9 games. Does my system with Intel Graphics support DX9?

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12th generation Intel processor's integrated GPU and Arc discrete GPU no longer support D3D9 natively. Applications and games based on DirectX 9 can still work through Microsoft* D3D9On12 interface.

The integrated GPU on 11th generation and older Intel processors supports DX9 natively, but they can be combined with Arc graphics cards. If so, rendering is likely to be handled by the card and not the iGPU (unless the card is disabled). Thus, the system will be using DX9On12 instead of DX9.

Since DirectX is property of and is sustained by Microsoft, troubleshooting of DX9 apps and games issues require promoting any findings to Microsoft Support so they can include the proper fixes in their next update of the operating system and the DirectX APIs.
The comical part of the support announcement is how Intel rather unashamedly passes the buck for any issues in DX9 games to Microsoft. The article clearly says "troubleshooting of DX9 apps and games issues require promoting any findings to Microsoft Support." It's true that problems in DX9 games could certainly be down to the D3D9On12 layer, but it's also rather clear that Microsoft is through working on it. Furthermore, there's no reason rendering issues in D3D9On12 couldn't be down to a bug in Intel's own graphics driver. Of course, it's understandable that Intel's graphics driver team is overloaded just trying to get DirectX 11, DirectX 12, and Vulkan working properly—to say nothing of OpenGL support. Contrary to popular belief, Vulkan does not supersede or replace OpenGL in its entirety, and if Intel wants to fully support Windows software, then Arc is going to need quality OpenGL support, too. Despite the majority of big AAA releases moving to DirectX 12, those aren't really the games people are playing for the most part. If we peek at the Steam player data, most of the top games going right now are based on DirectX 11. Intel probably thinks that DirectX 9 games are lightweight enough that the D3D9On12 translator will still provide sufficient performance, and that may indeed be the case.

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