: Your graphics card simply doesn't have the physical hardware to run these features (common with integrated graphics older than Intel HD 4000 ).
GPUs that support Feature Level 11.0 are capable of: d3d11compatible gpu feature level 110 shader model 50
ID3D11Device* device = nullptr; ID3D11DeviceContext* context = nullptr; D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL obtainedFL; HRESULT hr = D3D11CreateDevice( nullptr, // adapter (nullptr = default) D3D_DRIVER_TYPE_HARDWARE, nullptr, // software rasterizer creationFlags, featureLevels, ARRAYSIZE(featureLevels), D3D11_SDK_VERSION, &device, &obtainedFL, &context ); : Your graphics card simply doesn't have the