Intel, one of the big names in the semiconductor industry, is making a new change in the Arc series and Xe graphics cards. Compared to its competitors such as Nvidia and AMD, the technology giant, which is weak in graphics card drivers, is shelving 20-year-old DirectX 9 to speed up this process.
It will accelerate driver development
So far, it’s absolutely no secret that the company’s new graphics card venture hasn’t gone according to plan. Because the affordable Arc A380, which was released recently, fell behind its competitors due to graphics card drivers. However, Intel seems determined to improve the gaming performance and stability of Arc Alchemist graphics cards.
Reportedly, with the new change to include Intel Xe and the new Arc Alcemist graphics cards, native driver support for DirectX9 will end. Instead, Intel plans to use a DirectX12 tool called D3D9on12, which is an open source rendering layer for DX9. Thus, the DX12 conversion tool will act as a device driver interface and will save a lot of time in development.
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Since DirectX 9 supported games are left behind today, we can say that such a transformation will have minimal performance impact on games.
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