Intel start Testing Significant updating Windows-drivers Intel ARC Graphics Driver 31.0.101.3959 for video cards with GPU ARC (Alchemist) and IRIS (DG1), as well as for integrated GPU processors based on microarchitecture, Tiger Lake, Rocket Lakt lake. Lake and Raptor Lake. The most significant changes in the new version relate to work on increasing the performance of games using DirectX 9. is supposed to that optimization is implemented thanks to the use of the code from the free project dxvk , providing a layer with the implementation of dxgi (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure), Direct3D 9, 10 and 11, which works through the call broadcasts in the API Vulkan.
The mention of DXVK appeared in file , listing third -party open projects, the code of which is used in the driver. In addition, in video , telling about the changes associated with DirectX 9 support, it is mentioned that this API is implemented through The broadcast of calls into a more modern graphic API, while DXVK develops for such a broadcast. The mention of the hybrid implementation of Directx 9 is also present in one of notice on the blog Intel.