topic Re: How to Install Older Versions of Intel GPA (DirectX 9 Support) in Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers (Intel® GPA)

How to Install Older Versions of Intel GPA (DirectX 9 Support)

AdamLomax — Mon, 27 May 2024 11:47:31 GMT

Hi,

I made a support ticket but was told to make a query here by the support team.

I used Intel GPA quite often to profile DirectX 9 titles. However, with the most recent update (2024.1) DirectX 9 support has been discontinued.

It seems that even if I uninstall the most modern version of Intel GPA and use an old intaller I have from the previous version - where DirectX 9 support works - it simply seems to intall the most recent version again.

Is there a way to install the previous version of the software? I understand that DirectX 9 is extremely outdated now, but Intel GPA was the most useful software for my specific use case and it would be a shame to lose the ability to profile DirectX 9 titles entirely - since no other software exists that does what GPA does.

Cheers,

Adam

Re: How to Install Older Versions of Intel GPA (DirectX 9 Support)

sentientSpark_Intel — Wed, 29 May 2024 18:00:19 GMT

Hi AdamLomax,

Thank you for your post, and thank you for using GPA! Although we don't support DirectX 9 streams anymore as of the 2024.1 release, we have been given approval to share the 2023.4 Release (which has support for DirectX 9 capture and playback) to allow users to continue to profile Direct3D 9 titles. You will find it using the Dropbox link below:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bvbr1b00443muibgbl6u6/gpa_23.4.1702630016_release-external_x64_standalone.msi?rlkey=0fg09zitn906qcwbovpknf3vm&st=wg9wra4p&dl=0

You can check if the correct version is installed by selecting the Information icon on the top right and reading the version information from the resulting pop-up, as shown below.

I hope this version proves useful for your DirectX 9 analysis needs. If you run into any issues, please let us know!

Re: How to Install Older Versions of Intel GPA (DirectX 9 Support)

AdamLomax — Wed, 29 May 2024 19:46:05 GMT

Hi,

Thank you so much for the response!

This is perfect, thank you very much!

Re: How to Install Older Versions of Intel GPA (DirectX 9 Support)

sentientSpark_Intel — Fri, 31 May 2024 03:30:49 GMT

You are welcome!

I'm happy to hear it helped. Let us know if you have any more questions regarding Intel GPA for your profiling needs!

Best,

SentientSpark

Re: How to Install Older Versions of Intel GPA (DirectX 9 Support)

nonassociative — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 19:14:39 GMT

Hi,

This link is no longer active. Is it possible to obtain access to the download again?

Thank you kindly

Re: How to Install Older Versions of Intel GPA (DirectX 9 Support)

sentientSpark_Intel — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 20:13:11 GMT

Hi nonassociative,

Thanks for letting us know about the link inactivity.

This thread will link to an alternate link that should work for now.

Solved: How to download Older Versions of Intel GPA (DirectX 9 Support) without Dropbox - Intel Community

I would advise downloading this DX9 supported GPA version, as well as the latest version of GPA for your own use as we must discontinue the download link in 2026.

Thanks for your post, at let me know if you run into any further issues!

Re: How to Install Older Versions of Intel GPA (DirectX 9 Support)

nonassociative — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 21:05:27 GMT

Wonderful, thank you so much!

Re: How to Install Older Versions of Intel GPA (DirectX 9 Support)

nonassociative — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 12:18:13 GMT

Hi,
I’m trying to use Intel GPA to analyze Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition (2012) which is a Direct3D 9 title. GPA does launch, and it can hook into the game enough to show some basic information like a few shaders, but several critical features are not working correctly.

1. Frame Capture only shows very limited data

2. Only a handful of shaders appear in the captured frame.

3. No draw call history, no pipeline stages, and no resource lists.

This is a D3D9 game, but GPA seems to only detect part of the device usage.

“Stream” view never progresses it remains stuck on “Starting…” indefinitely.

CPU/GPU usage is not displayed.

“Trace” also stalls

Initiating a trace results in the UI showing “Starting…” forever.

No ETL file or trace results are produced.

Game sometimes fails to progress beyond its loading screen when GPA is attached.

I tried:

1. Running GPA Monitor as Administrator

2. Launching game with and without Steam

3. Ensuring no overlays (Steam, Nvidia Overlay) are running

4. Disabling forced VSync and other GPU features

5. Testing on multiple launch methods (direct EXE, through monitor, etc.)

6. Reinstalling GPA

7. Verifying no injected DLLs or mods exist

8. Checking that the GPA capture hotkeys and trigger timing work

9. Ensuring Intel graphics driver is up to date

GPA should capture the following:

Complete D3D9 pipeline state

All shaders bound during the frame

Draw call stream

Stream and Trace telemetry

It is only capturing:

Only partial shader data appears

No draw call or pipeline information

Stream/Trace never start

Occasional failure to progress past loading screen when hooked

Could this be due to:

Incomplete D3D9 support in the current GPA version?

A known compatibility issue with older DX9 titles?

A required setting or capture mode I may be missing?

Any guidance on configuration, compatibility limitations, or debugging steps would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

Re: How to Install Older Versions of Intel GPA (DirectX 9 Support)

sentientSpark_Intel — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:12:04 GMT

Hey again nonassociative,

I apologize for the late reply. And thanks for sharing the issues you are encountering analyzing the DirectX 9 game.

The latest version of GPA (before it was discontinued) doesn't support DirectX9, so I assume you are referring to the 2023.4 Release that was approved for download. The GPA 2023.4 Release should support DirectX 9, but I'm not positive on the specifics and I'll have to get back to you on that.

Regarding known compatibility issues with older DX9 titles or required setting or capture modes you may be missing, I'll look into this and get back to you on those topics as well.

Given that we can no longer make code changes to GPA as it is discontinued, and that you've tried a wide variety of solutions to overcome this issue, I'm not positive I'll be able to unblock this issue for you. But I'll see what I can do and will post again when I have something to share

Re: How to Install Older Versions of Intel GPA (DirectX 9 Support)

sentientSpark_Intel — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 01:30:23 GMT

Hi again nonassociative,

I found some time to validate Dark Soul: Prepare to Die edition with the GPA version mentioned in this thread. I was hoping to share some good news, but I'm sorry to say I did not have much success.

You are correct about most all of those assumptions regarding what DX9 support in that version of GPA should do. GPA should capture the following information with a DX90 Frame: A complete D3D9 pipeline state, shaders bound during the frame, and a list of the Draw calls and other DX9 Calls.

For Stream and Trace telemetry - I don't believe GPA Trace captures supported DX9, or at least not the version that was approved for DX9 support release on this thread. So I wouldn't expect Trace captures (or stream captures) to work. Trace works for DX11, 12, Vulkan, and OpenGL, whereas Stream works for DX11, 12, and Vulkan. Frame capture is the only supported mode that supports DX9.

Back to the issues you are experiencing, it sounds like the captured frame file is corrupted. This could be a problem with the capture or the playback (which happens when a frame is opened in Frame Analyzer). Corruption in frame files can cause these indefinitely loading or starting issues along with unexpected behavior when exploring resources in the Frame Analyzer.

Unfortunately, I was unable in my validations attempts to take a successful capture of this application. I encountered an "Invalid device id" capture failure on several platforms, including both Intel and NVIDIA. I confirmed that I could capture a frame from another DX9 application, so I'm not sure the root cause of my issue. As for the reasons behind the issues you are encountering, you are probably right that there may be a compatibility issue with this title. The DX9 Frame Analyzer that opens when you open a DX9 frame from Graphics Monitor is a legacy application that hasn't been supported in a while. I do not have the domain knowledge to help you further with this, and since the GPA product has been discontinued we have no more developers working on it that I could reach out to.

The one suggestion I have for further troubleshooting is to try older versions of GPA from before 2024.1 if you have any saved. You may have luck looking online or looking through web archives for: Download Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers. Sometimes regressions are introduced in releases and its possible that older releases of GPA may have supported this title better.

Thanks for your post and happy christmas holidays