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Yet even build numbers are a mixed bag to tell big changes apart (like Xe cards [https://github.com/microsoft/D3D9On12/issues/57#issuecomment-1349671011 gaining back] "native" D3D9 being just a few digits bumps), and sometimes even docs don't seem to be in-the-know themselves: | Yet even build numbers are a mixed bag to tell big changes apart (like Xe cards [https://github.com/microsoft/D3D9On12/issues/57#issuecomment-1349671011 gaining back] "native" D3D9 being just a few digits bumps), and sometimes even docs don't seem to be in-the-know themselves: | ||
| − | * contrarily to what | + | * contrarily to what PR implied, the [https://web.archive.org/web/20181201095309/https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/28148/Intel-Graphics-Windows-10-Modern-Drivers DCH driver] supported also all the way down to 1709 <small>(that stopped to be the case with [https://web.archive.org/web/20210731013459/https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/30579/Intel-Graphics-Windows-DCH-Drivers 30.xx] though, unsure if out of actual technical reasons perhaps related to W11 or just because they couldn't be bothered to officially care for unsupported Windows)</small> |
| − | * it's not true that all 25.20.100.*** drivers were already | + | * it's not true that all 25.20.100.*** drivers were already DCH, [https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/19364/28289/legacy-intel-graphics-driver-for-windows-10.html 6373] was still [https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000058296/graphics.html legacy]-only (god knows the sadistic lunatic who decided to nickname that "DC") |
| − | * a nebulous FAQ [https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000058296/graphics.html says] that beginning with one March 2020 release, only DCH drivers will be available.. but when ever was that otherwise since their introduction? | + | * a nebulous FAQ [https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000058296/graphics.html says] that beginning with one March 2020 release, only DCH drivers will be available.. but when ever was that otherwise since their [https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000031572/programs/intel-corporation.html introduction]? |
* a welcome exception to the rule of exceptions is that 15.45 should have been the last branch with W7/W8 support, while 25.20.100.6374 should be the first ever DCH driver | * a welcome exception to the rule of exceptions is that 15.45 should have been the last branch with W7/W8 support, while 25.20.100.6374 should be the first ever DCH driver | ||
| − | p.s. please be VERY wary of not confusing 11th Generation ''processors'' with Gen11 ''graphics'' | + | * for a number of months the old non-Arc "DCH" driver was still getting updated hand-to-hand the Arc one (then in May 2022 they started to diverge, and by the end of the year the former went EOL) |
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| + | p.s. please be VERY wary of not confusing [[Wikipedia:Intel Core#11th generation|11th Generation]] ''processors'' with [[Wikipedia:List of Intel graphics processing units#Gen11|Gen11]] ''graphics'' (which sits instead on Ice Lake 10th gen cpus) | ||