DirectX* 11 on 10

Eastad · January 27, 2019

Can I enable directx 11 on Intel hd 3000 integrated gpu?Is there any way?

Levent · January 27, 2019

no not really, DX implementation also depends on the game.

mariushm · January 27, 2019

Even if you could, it's up to the game to actually use the card in DirectX 11 mode... and since as the text says a lot of DirectX features are not supported, the games will most likely default to DirectX 10 or DirectX 9 paths, since those would run better with that old hardware.

Mira Yurizaki · January 27, 2019

DirectX is designed to be forwards and backwards compatible with hardware, as long as the hardware supports what's called a Feature Level. DirectX 11 has a variety of Feature Levels from 9_1 (introduced back in DirectX 9.0b) to 12_1 (introduced in DirectX 12). However higher numbered Feature Levels must support all of the features in lower numbers. To the interest of a game developer, what the image is saying is it's basically is the GPU is limited to Feature Level 10_1 (introduced in DirectX 10.1), but supports two features introduced in DirectX 11 one of which was made compatible with Feature Level 10_1 anyway and the other is a driver thing.

To answer the question, the GPU is compatible with DirectX 11, it just won't use the features in Feature Levels higher than 10_1 if a game tries to. Though I'm not sure how that works with regards to performance.