DirectX 10 backported to Windows XP
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SilverBlue




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PostPosted: Sat, 21st Apr 2007 16:30    Post subject: DirectX 10 backported to Windows XP
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Alky has released a preview of his DirectX 10 compatibility libraries. These libraries allow the use of DirectX 10 games on platforms other than Microsoft Vista, and increase hardware compatibility even on Vista, by compiling Geometry Shaders down to native machine code for execution where hardware isn't capable of running it. No longer will you have to upgrade your OS and video card(s) to play the latest games! The current preview allows you to run a number of examples from the DirectX SDK on Windows XP. They're not the greatest thing since sliced bread, but we want to whet your appetite. He hopes to release builds in the coming months progressing from demos to fully functional games. He also plan to post on his blog from time to time with screenshots and videos of what's to come.


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Nifty. Smile
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PostPosted: Sat, 21st Apr 2007 17:35    Post subject:
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PostPosted: Sat, 21st Apr 2007 17:40    Post subject:
Excuse me if I sound sceptical. Big difference between a homebrew reverse-engineered API and it actually working in practice, 100% in all games...


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PostPosted: Sat, 21st Apr 2007 17:45    Post subject:
You are allowed to be sceptical, but you have to admit it is pretty nifty that someone actually bothered to do it no matter how half arsed it might be. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Sat, 21st Apr 2007 17:52    Post subject:
actually the architecture in directd3d10 is meant to be working natively only with wddm's at vista.

so basically this driver is like an emulator which translates the dx10 ops to 9 (offline, not in real-time lik wine is doing with programs).


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PostPosted: Sat, 21st Apr 2007 17:58    Post subject:
Well even if it may not be so impressive at the moment it is an interesting project and I'm sure the creator will learn new nifty ways to do his stuff. If he keeps the interest up we might very well see some good functionality of DirectX 10 in XP.

Sure it may never turn out to be as "good" as in Vista but it might be acceptable.



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PostPosted: Sat, 21st Apr 2007 18:15    Post subject:
i am not so interested in DX10 running on DX9 cards , but if they can get DX10 to work on XP with dx10 cards that would be great .
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PostPosted: Mon, 30th Apr 2007 18:22    Post subject:
some guy is trying to port it to Mac and Linux too...
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PostPosted: Mon, 30th Apr 2007 18:23    Post subject:
Mac.... Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing


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PostPosted: Mon, 30th Apr 2007 18:28    Post subject:
Parallax_ wrote:
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PostPosted: Mon, 30th Apr 2007 18:30    Post subject:
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yeah, read it at ITavisen. I was like... if you are going to play a game, why the hell buy a mac. Well, they made Doom3 compatible with it.
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SilverBlue




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PostPosted: Tue, 1st May 2007 02:18    Post subject:
Mac too? Geez. Smile This is getting out of hand.
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PostPosted: Tue, 1st May 2007 06:39    Post subject:
Lawsuits will shut this down Sad


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PostPosted: Tue, 1st May 2007 06:58    Post subject:
Mutantius wrote:
Lawsuits will shut this down Sad


What would the case be? I mean I can't doubt M$, they got the money to do pretty much anything but what are they doing that's illegal.


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PostPosted: Tue, 1st May 2007 10:27    Post subject:
Reverse engineering their API.


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PostPosted: Tue, 1st May 2007 18:58    Post subject:
WaldoJ wrote:
Parallax_ wrote:
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PostPosted: Tue, 1st May 2007 19:04    Post subject:
That's because you're a chick Laughing


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