directx 10 for xp, anyone using it?

i wonder if any of you have already used directx 10 for xp. is it smooth?

thanks

 

I dont think Xp supports dx10, unless you know something i dont!

 

No it does not, though there is a project for converting DX10 for XP it has been slow and buggy.

 

you cant its only for vista

 

DirectX 10 as Microsoft DirectX 10? NO.

But there is this Alky Project that concentrates on compatibility library for Microsoft DirectX 10 "enabled" games. These compatibility libraries allow the use of DirectX 10 games on platforms other than Windows Vista.

Many gamers have claimed good experiences with it. Create a restore point if you want to give it a try.

cheers ...

 

The company that made the compatibility libraries folded, and released their code as LGPL, so don't expect any updates. And they also ended up having to hack a lot of the games, actually changing the game executable. And realize that the only way they could get any kind of DX10 compatibility would be to either just ignore the DX10 specific effects, translate them into DX9/OpenGL shaders, or emulate them in software on the CPU. The only one that might be ok is the DX9/OpenGL shader route, which would seem to be quite difficult and also open you up to some major performance penalties if implemented wrong. If you want to use DX10, I'd suggest you buy a copy of Vista.

 

Interesting information regarding the games hacking. This would definitively defeat the purpose of the "compability" libraries.

A sure bet

cheers ...

 

I assume you mean the Russian version (DX 10 LV)? I downloaded and installed it. Dxdiag recognized it as DX10, but I couldn't get Crysis Demo or Company of Heroes to turn on DX10 features (and the documentation was in Russian, which didn't help me). DX10 benchmarks, meanwhile, seem to insist on Vista. So it didn't do a whole lot of good. But I didn't have many DX10 games to test it with, either. It also turned up a positive on the antivirus scan, which autodeleted one of its files. I don't think it actually was a virus, but it meant that if you had an anti-virus scanner on, you couldn't run DX10 LV, and vice versa. Kinda problematic if you've a penchant for computer virus infections.

The Alky Project is different; it didn't look as up to date and didn't appear to have as much success when I looked around last August.

On the whole I'm satisfied with DX9, though - if you have high-quality DX9 graphics, it's going to look very good. I don't get VSYNC FPS on games that support DX10, either, so it's rather moot point - turning up DX9 works just as well for improving quality. If you really want DX10, I'd advise finding a friend that downloaded the Windows 7 Beta and using one of his 5 installations, and using that until the end of July. Then buy Windows 7 when it comes out.

 

it's a little too late for me. i did give it a try and it actually crashed my system.