Around 2 years back, Intel hit their graphics market by replacing their usual, vendor specific graphics driver with the MS D3D9On12. Back then, and even now, that driver is filled with bugs since it's slowly in developed.
It's 2023 Q4, did Intel change to some other driver, revert to the old driver, or move to D3D9On12 completely? How's the state of DDraw, D3D1-7, D3D8,9,10,11.
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I can't speak for Windows, but for Linux, Intel is close to releasing an improved new driver architecture called "Xe", which will be replacing their old unified i915 driver, at least for their newer generation GPUs: integrated GPUs Tiger Lake (Gen 12) and up, as well as their recently released discrete ARC GPUs.
digger wrote on 2023-12-12, 00:03:which will be replacing their old unified i915 driver, at least for their newer generation GPUs: integrated GPUs Tiger Lake (Gen 12) and up, as well as their recently released discrete ARC GPUs.
I'm still on Intel Iris Pro 580 (Gen9) because my desktop is a Intel NUC (NUC6i7kyk), I hope this major change doesn't spell doom for me later down the line because I have no money for a newer system and I specifically have been using this generation of Intel Graphics for how well it handles both old and new games alike.
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digger wrote on 2023-12-12, 00:03:I can't speak for Windows, but for Linux, Intel is close to releasing an improved new driver architecture called "Xe", which will be replacing their old unified i915 driver, at least for their newer generation GPUs: integrated GPUs Tiger Lake (Gen 12) and up, as well as their recently released discrete ARC GPUs.
On a different note, did the old drivers came bundled with the distros itself? I had Mint installed for 2yrs on a machine (which I replaced with XP now) but I don't know if it installed the Intel drivers (Ivy Bridge) itself, since I didn't do anything for it.
DracoNihil wrote on 2023-12-12, 00:55:digger wrote on 2023-12-12, 00:03:which will be replacing their old unified i915 driver, at least for their newer generation GPUs: integrated GPUs Tiger Lake (Gen 12) and up, as well as their recently released discrete ARC GPUs.
I'm still on Intel Iris Pro 580 (Gen9) because my desktop is a Intel NUC (NUC6i7kyk), I hope this major change doesn't spell doom for me later down the line because I have no money for a newer system and I specifically have been using this generation of Intel Graphics for how well it handles both old and new games alike.
It is unlikely they would change anything for Gen9. They started with Gen10 (or11?) if I am not wrong for the d3d9on12 drivers and you always have the option to not update the driver.
An user @lowenz here purchased an Intel card, I did PM him about how the drivers do but he probably didn't see it. Also there's that I know personally in my area who uses an Intel GPU, everybody is after an Nvidia dedicated or an AMD integrated.
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