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Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.1.1 Alpha Release Notes



This early access driver is being provided for users who have had issues launching a small number of DirectX 9 based games. This alpha driver has not been fully tested by AMD and is not recommended for general use.

You guys do know that at one time their drivers broke DX7? And before that DX5? It's called "This is PC Gaming, it moves forward".

Thank you all for sounding the death knell of PC's being at the forefront of tech. When the 9th gen consoles have DX15 level graphics we'll be glad to know our convoluted, outdated driver libraries can still play decade-old games without a mod, Huzzah! Zipplet you tag yourself as a retro gamer yet you seem to think your PC should be able to run everything without some kind of emulation or third-party mod.

Once you've childishly hounded AMD to put all the bits of DX9 back in their drivers are you going to start a change.org petition to get them to bring back DX7 and DX5 also in case I want to play GTA without DOSBox? How about APIs to run Nintendo or Sega games without third-party emulation?

Let's all nip progress in the bud and only play old games from now on.

DirectX 9 has not yet been deprecated by Microsoft. It is a mature, stable API that is still actively supported; it was updated with the release of Windows 10 and even last November, Microsoft released some updates in the rollup patch that was released during that month.

Microsoft don't want it to die yet, so it must be supported by GPU manufacturers. Indie games are still coming out with DirectX 9.

Once Microsoft *do* want it to die, they will officially deprecate it and at that time we need good (not half working!) wrappers to keep those older games running.

What you are saying is completely against most of what GOG stands for; that is, to bring older games back into our hands. In the future we will have nice wrappers to Vulkan or a similar API. But for now, while DirectX 9 is supported by Microsoft, we need support from the GPU vendors.

It does not hold AMD back. If they don't want to provide core support in the driver they can provide a universal wrapper. However according to AMD they found a regression and are working on it.

Edit: Alpha driver released, updated OP.