DirectX 10 for Windows XP!

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Unless of course Microsoft shuts them down, or buy them out and charge for the DX10 for XP.
One of these two options is going to happen, since other than DX10 what else is the reason that would make you switch to Vista?
 
Implementing DX10 in XP is an impossible task, because in a capitalist society, it is impossible to do something for a loss. 😛

Well, when dx10 games come out, we shall see!
 
By the time this becomes official, Microsoft will probably not invest time and money trying to incorporate new technology into a older Operating System. They'll most likely stick it on Vista, and leave it as that. Maybe they'll have a smaller version for it on XP for some users. But other than that, I think otherwise.
 
Don't get your hopes up... At least I got Vista for $12 so I'm all set! :wink: It might be nice even for me now because I like XP MCE's interface better than Vista's. Is it also saying DX9 cards can run on it? That would be awesome as I have a 7600 GT.
 
Oh god, why would you ever want DirectX 10 on windows XP if you are only going to use a DX9 graphics card. And if this does actually work you will then have the problem of games being designed for Vista having to be hacked if that is even possible to run with DirectX10 on windows XP, which because of the way the drivers work in Vista may not be at all possible unless specifically designed to do so by the game designer.

Stop being silly and stop being one of those people that stayed with Windows98 when XP was released because the games worked a tad faster and 98 booted up a hand full of seconds sooner.
 
My objections to Vista are more than just the speed difference.
I am willing to pay attention and give these guys a chance to make it work because I have no reason at all to spend hundreds of dollars on an OS upgrade EXCEPT for DX10.

If they can make DX10 work good enough to play any DX10 games I am interested in then I would gladly send them $50 to keep up the good work. That is the same $50 I would gladly give Microsoft for a windows XP version of DX10. That is all I value that feature at, and to be honest, most of the other "features" of Vista detract from the value I put in it.
 
why do ppl bash the idea of being able to play vista dedicated games on xp, to be honest i like the idea of not using vista, and getting some things to work on xp instead of vista, since i hate vista lol
 
Last I heard it didn't actually work.
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Believe me, it did. And I have a copy of Vista home premium express upgrade to show for it.

Didn't read the article, so I probably missed something. Thought it was a rehash of how someone just ported files from Vista to XP to try and use DX10, but couldn't get it going in the end.
 
Last I heard it didn't actually work.
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Believe me, it did. And I have a copy of Vista home premium express upgrade to show for it.

Didn't read the article, so I probably missed something. Thought it was a rehash of how someone just ported files from Vista to XP to try and use DX10, but couldn't get it going in the end.

Sorry I think were talking about different subjects. 😳 Were you saying the XP port of DX 10 didn't work? I thought you were saying the Vista Express upgrade didn't work. My bad! Yes, I think you were right about DX10 on XP though.
 
Don't get your hopes up... At least I got Vista for $12 so I'm all set! :wink: It might be nice even for me now because I like XP MCE's interface better than Vista's. Is it also saying DX9 cards can run on it? That would be awesome as I have a 7600 GT.
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Vista for $12?!??, i got mine for 3 bucks.
 
Don't get your hopes up... At least I got Vista for $12 so I'm all set! :wink: It might be nice even for me now because I like XP MCE's interface better than Vista's. Is it also saying DX9 cards can run on it? That would be awesome as I have a 7600 GT.
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Vista for $12?!??, i got mine for 3 bucks.

Lol really?
 
Don't get your hopes up... At least I got Vista for $12 so I'm all set! :wink: It might be nice even for me now because I like XP MCE's interface better than Vista's. Is it also saying DX9 cards can run on it? That would be awesome as I have a 7600 GT.
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Vista for $12?!??, i got mine for 3 bucks.

Lol really?

yeah really, from the local pirate dealer, btw how much genuine Vista costs?
 
Don't get your hopes up... At least I got Vista for $12 so I'm all set! :wink: It might be nice even for me now because I like XP MCE's interface better than Vista's. Is it also saying DX9 cards can run on it? That would be awesome as I have a 7600 GT.
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Vista for $12?!??, i got mine for 3 bucks.

Lol really?

yeah really, from the local pirate dealer, btw how much genuine Vista costs?

lol actually vista costs $3 in China, lol no one wanted to buy it so m$ sells it for that price there, and so fat they sold not much more than 244 coppies of it since its lounch lol, thats hows how crappy it is lol 😉....amongst other things 😉
 
DirectX10 RC2 Fix3-Pre for windows XP

tn_dxd10.jpg


Why DirectX 10?

directx9.jpg

directx10.jpg


DirectX 10 Games for Windows Titles (some examples):
Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures
Hellgate: London
BioShock
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Acceleration
Crysis
World in Conflict
Gears of War for Windows


Other articles
http://www.technospot.net/blogs/download-directx-10-for-windows-xp-from-alky-project/


Torrent download
http://www.mininova.org/tor/1708716

Note DirectX 10 compatible video card is required to make it work

HOPE IT HELPS...
 
Added article:

http://www.softwareheadlines.com/modules/planet/view.article.php/266190

I installed it... whew! it works and fully integrated to my Windows XP Sp3

It really turns on the eye candies ^_^

According to ATI with DirectX 10 means highest efficiency and performance

DirectX 9 Architecture Pixel Shaders have little work and remain idle... So whats the use of that multi shader you got but stocked at DX9... ^_^


Other Download Link: RC2 version (almost final) DX 10 ver 4.10.0000.6000

http://rapidshare.com/files/142192824/DirectX.10.for.XP.rar
 
Ah this is the Alky project. I lost track of it but I read about it way back when Vista was just coming out. I thought this was a DX10 game emulator, not a true DX10 hack for XP.

I am very skeptical of all DX10 vs DX9 screen shots. The Flight Simulator shot looks like DX9 on low and DX10 on very high. just to make a contrast.

Going off Crysis, I can tell no difference at all in the DX9 very high vs DX10 versions. Here is a site to help.

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6182140/index.html
 



and if done right, direct x 9 can do everything that dx10 can do visually the problem is that it will come at a much greater performance hit which will make the game unplayable no matter how fast the card as you will be pushing the limits of what dx9 can efficiently handle in a render engine

it is like how the nvidia grove demo which was made to test the geforce 2, was able to lag a geforce 8800GTX to single digits frame rates when many trees were rendered even though you will see 100 times more trees in crysis and with more detail


there have not been any of those test done using dx10 in xp

in the link you posted was done with dx 9

also as you can see at lower settings for both xp and vista, xp performs faster as on low settings the videocard is no longer a bottleneck thats when the resource hogging os shows it's face

thats why theres so much of a push for dx 10 on xp

I would test it out but i have a geforce 6800 which tops out at direct x 9

when I get a dx 10 card, then I will do a comparison of crysis for xp vs vista in dx10

 


The only reason DX9 couldn't be ported to XP is because M$ wrote a few Vista only funciton calls into the DLL's so you couldn't just copy/paste. I'm just surprised this took as long as it did.

BTW, does this come with an uninstaller in case things break?
 
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