Must be a slow news week. Driver 15.40.44.5107 was released January 10th 2020. The bugs fixed disclosed some time later in https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/

Must be a slow news week. Driver 15.40.44.5107 was released January 10th 2020. The bugs fixed disclosed some time later in https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00315.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advi... People have been complaining about dx12 not working with that driver on haswell in early 2020 on their forums. And intels support staff responded with "that chip does not officially support dx12" https://community.intel.com/t5/Graphics/Why-the-DirectX-12-is-not-working-on-newer-Drivers/td-p/721273#messageView2_1_6 https://community.intel.com/t5/Graphics/Why-the-DirectX-12-i... Note that those chips are two years older then DX12 which was released july 2015 together with win10. edit: however intel silently changed the list of supported APIs their forum staff is linking. When looking at old patch notes, those chips for some time did officially feature DX12 https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/news/new-intel-graphics-driver-for-windows-10-and-windows-781-1540224424.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/n... - with a small-print of "mostly but not completely". edit2: it seems intel was under pressure at the time to push drivers that fix game crashes in triple-A games on win10 on haswell. One more thing: the article linked here has a "lastModifieddate" metatag of 2020-11-04 - did they set the wrong publishing date in their CMS? hahaha. So some tech journals probably monitor intel for new articles and now they are copying from each other with no one checking if the news is older than moldy bread. edit: looking at SA-00315 i wonder if DX12 ever only worked on those chips because it gracefully overflowed some buffers edit2: mmh the big new thing in DX12 were low level APIs.