Older Graphics Card Compatibility for Windows 11

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Is Intel UHD Graphics 630 (Dell) compatible with DirectX 12? My Hardware seems acceptable (TPM 2 Good} except for the card that I cannot find if it can run DirectX 12:

Speccy:

Windows 10 Home 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i3 @ 3.60GHz 103 °F
Kaby Lake 14nm Technology
RAM
4.00GB
Motherboard
Dell Inc. 0D02VH (U3E1)
Graphics
DELL ST2010 (1600×900@60Hz)
Intel UHD Graphics 630 (Dell)
Storage
931GB Seagate ST1000DM010-2EP102 (SATA ) 115 °F

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• This topic was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by martin1223.

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See Checking your version of DirectX

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Thanks! I’m good for Windows 11, but do I really want it. Can keep 10 until 2025, so maybe I’ll wait awhile and see how 11 behaves with others.

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The compatibility thing is about virtualized security slowing performance, TPM and processor are related to that; it’s whether HVCI/VBS gum up the works.  Pure hardware compatibility isn’t an issue.  Preview users were running Win 11 on most anything.

This sorts through it well.  And the problem children can be disabled.  If some tiny very secure Atom processors are on the approved list, seems like Marketing will make all this go away shortly:

https://www.goodgearguide.com.au//article/689514/why-windows-11-leaving-many-pcs-behind-it-just-tpm/

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Thanks for the heads up.

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Nothing will protect Windows11 users from buggy Patch Tuesdays.

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martin1223 wrote:

Intel Core i3 @ 3.60GHz

Your Intel 630 (DirectX 12, WDDM 2.0) is compatible but your CPU isn’t (only Intel 8 gen+, AMD 2xxx+)

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@Alex5723 wrote…

Your Intel 630 (DirectX 12, WDDM 2.0) is compatible but your CPU isn’t (only Intel 8 gen+, AMD 2xxx+)

because @martin1223 wrote…

CPU
Intel Core i3 @ 3.60GHz 103 °F
Kaby Lake 14nm Technology

What Alex wrote may not necessarily be true. There is, for example, an 8th generation i3-4100 processor that isn’t compatible, but there is also an i3-8100 processor that is compatible. I found these processors by Googling martin’s stated processor line and speed (i3 @3.60 GHz) and came up with those results.

Now, as far as Kaby Lake goes, many of those are seventh generation processors and are not currently compatible per Microsoft’s currently stated specifications but that itself may change from what’s being discussed in other Windows 11 threads here and on other sites.

So, @martin1223, for any of us to say whether or not your processor is compatible or not, we need to know its exact number, such as i3-2120, i3-8100, i3-7700k, etc. To find this info is easy. Simply to go Settings and click on the “System” choice. You should see several selections in a scroll-able menu on the left side of the window. Scroll down all the way to the bottom of that list and select “About”. The resulting screen will tell you exactly which processor you have (i3-15000, for example) under the “Device Specifications” heading. The first listing is “Device name” and the next one (second one) should say “Processor” and will have the exact name of the processor including the number.

I hope this helps.

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Sorry about that 8100!

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So, since it looks like you have an Intel i3-8100 CPU at 3.6GHz, you should then be able to successfully install/upgrade to Windows 11 when the time comes for you.

That is, provided that Microsoft doesn’t increase their currently stated system requirements between now and the time you decide to take the plunge!

In my case, I’m currently eligible if I enable Intel’s PTT (TPM 2.0 on the CPU) and subsequently enable Secure Boot. However, I don’t anticipate doing that until at least early 2025! Lots of time between now and then for MS to move the “goalposts” a little further away!

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List of all supported processors :

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/these-are-all-the-intel-and-amd-cpus-that-can-run-windows-11#:~:text=Only%20chips%20from%20Intel’s%208th,be%20compatible%20with%20Windows%2011.&text=Microsoft%20has%20a%20full%20list,most%20popular%20consumer%2Dlevel%20CPUs.

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The list in the link from Tom’s Guide above is not an all-inclusive list by far. Is is simply a list of the most popular currently available processors that will work with Windows 11. In the article, there are links to the following places with the complete lists of all processors that Microsoft says will work currently with Windows 11. The following is the complete Intel processor list:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/minimum/supported/windows-11-supported-intel-processors

And here’s the complete AMD processor list:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/minimum/supported/windows-11-supported-amd-processors

For anyone following this thread and seeing these links, please realize that the lists on the pages these links go to are rather exhaustive. Because of this, when going to either site to look for a specific processor to see if it’s listed, please use your browser’s search in page (also called “find in page”) function to find a string that matches your processor’s identification such as Ryzen 3 5300u or i3-8100. Try the number portion of the processor’s name first to see if you get any hits.

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Yeah, the real compatibility issue is with virtualized security which will come enabled in Win 11 by default but can be turned off.  It’s core isolation>memory integrity in Settings>Security.

Even so, “compatibility” is whether there’s a big slowdown with virtualization turned on.  I’d bet Marketing “fixes” the incompatible list soon.

630 is one of the later Gen 9’s  built into a bazillion consumer computers for a number of years, we have four of them.  Win 11 absolutely will run on it with an incompatible CPU, did it a week or so ago before a Win 10 reinstall.

Don’t get too wound around the axle about the incompatibility stuff, it’s still early.

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Thanks everyone for your comments. However with Ask Woody Plus Newsletter ISSUE 18.26 • 2021-07-12, I downloaded the neat “Ready Sun Valley” zip file on oldergeeks.com and it says I am compatible! However, like I said before, I will just wait to see how Windows 11 turns out since I have until 2025. Thanks again!

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