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    For heaven's sake, one final time.

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by stonesrubber, Jun 16, 2009.

  1. stonesrubber

    stonesrubber Notebook Consultant

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    i know a lot of threads have already talked about it, but still i have reason to believe, through posts that the DX10 performance on XP is the same, if not better than it is on vista. Now, i have never come across DX10 on XP, microsoft does not support it. I wish the experts and moderators on this forum to clarify for one last time what the position on this is. Where does all this talk and hype about DX10 on Xp originate from? i know XP is genreally considered better for gaming, but really isnt this pushing it too far?
     
    stonesrubber, Jun 16, 2009
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  2. ViciousXUSMC

    ViciousXUSMC Master Viking NBR Reviewer

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    Um DX10 on XP, since when?
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Jun 16, 2009
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  3. potentv

    potentv Notebook Evangelist

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    i always thought XP didnt get DX10, only vista
     
    potentv, Jun 16, 2009
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  4. MrDJ

    MrDJ Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    xp = dx9
    vista = dx10

    nuff said :)
     
    MrDJ, Jun 16, 2009
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  5. Budding

    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

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    There are some 3rd parties that have modified DirectX 10 to be compatible with XP. Use them at your own risk.
     
    Budding, Jun 16, 2009
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  6. HTWingNut

    HTWingNut Potato

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    But isn't it really DirectX 10 calls being converted into DirectX 9 calls?
     
    HTWingNut, Jun 16, 2009
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  7. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I'm pretty sure of that. From my understanding, DX10 requires features only found on Vista. At best, DX10 'hacks' for XP would break it down to DX9 programming...but there might be a small performance penalty because of the extra overhead.

    A 'hack' like would only be useful for games that were exclusively DX10 I imagine. I've never seen anything that has actually been useful, or we'd probably know about it.
     
    Greg, Jun 16, 2009
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  8. HTWingNut

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    Exactly. Which is disappointing in a way. Seems like DirectX 10 was mainly a gimmick which never really was up to the hype. Hopefully Win 7 will change all that.
     
    HTWingNut, Jun 17, 2009
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  9. narsnail

    narsnail Notebook Prophet

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    the problems with DX10 was the developers were always giving it extra features which reduced performance, if they had two separate strings of the same game, one DX9 and one DX10 the DX10 one would most likely perform better, it was supposed to be the next step in simplifying, but at this point its who can make the coolest looking crap.
     
    narsnail, Jun 17, 2009
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  10. The_Moo™

    The_Moo™ Here we go again.....

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    im right with Greg :cool:
     
    The_Moo™, Jun 17, 2009
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  11. masterchef341

    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    don't even worry about dx10. as those above have said, its hype.

    no games are dx10 only. dx9 basically looks the same in the few games that offer dx10.

    dx9 tends to perform better than dx10.

    problem solved.

    even *Big* games like fallout 3, call of duty 4, and modern warfare 2 are directx 9 only

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_DirectX_10_support

    These are the games that even SUPPORT directx10 at all... notice there are about 30. and there aren't a bunch of huge upcoming titles on that list either.
     
    masterchef341, Jun 17, 2009
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  12. Magnus72

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    There is no DX10 on XP at all. I have tried all those third party software and it doesn´t give any DX10 at all. So it´s all bull. Use Vista if you want DX10, preferably Vista 64 which is faster than the 32 bit counterpart.
     
    Magnus72, Jun 17, 2009
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  13. Signal2Noise

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    In most games that support DX10, DX9 > DX10. I do not notice any gains visually but there certainly is a performance hit with DX10.
     
    Signal2Noise, Jun 17, 2009
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