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DirectX 10 In XP (?)

liquidfluidity

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Does it actually work. I have seen posts about the pros and cons of DX10 but not if the DX10 apps for XP actually work .If one is better than the other(app) which?
 
Wasn't this put to bed -- Dx10 on XP, with a demo, that didn't even run Dx10 -- long ago?

What was the name of that company again? Burnt leaf?
 
No. DX10 includes several things that are fundamentally not compatible with the XP kernel architecture; it will not be backported.
 
The exe. I have is called DX10-XP by KM-Software. I'll have to Google and see what comes up. Thanks guys! ;)
 
The primary benefit of DirectX 10 is better performance and greater efficiency. There are attempts at putting DirectX 10 on Windows XP, but those are for the sole purpose of allowing DirectX 10 exclusive games to 'run' on Windows XP, not for them to run good.

A lot of DirectX 10's features are dependent upon Windows Vista's kernel and Display Driver Model, which means they won't work on XP. This is one of the main reasons DirectX 10 was not put on Windows XP. The other being, it'd be stupid to do so, since XP users have already gotten 5 years of the latest improvements for free; Why should Microsoft spend massive sums of time and money developing a new set of APIs, to give them away free to XP users? They want to make money off of the time and money they invested into the API, and using it as incentive for users to switch to Vista is the only logical move. ANY company would do the same thing in the same situation, and it's less a matter of Microsoft's greed and more a matter of stingy XP users having a false sense of entitlement.

Microsoft could put DirectX 10 on Windows XP, provided they recode Windows XP's kernel and basically turn it into a cut down version of Windows Vista and find some way of distributing that update, however it's just far too expensive and far too stupid of a thing to do to an obsolete operating system that won't earn Microsoft any new revenue.
 
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The exe. I have is called DX10-XP by KM-Software. I'll have to Google and see what comes up. Thanks guys! ;)
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It's not going to do anything useful for you on XP. The furthest project that has been released was Alky's old OGL/DX10 wrapper, but that went nowhere. It was never able to even display even a simple single triangle DX10 demo exe. It only worked on a couple of DX10 demos from inside the Visual Studio IDE (no GS, and many VS/PS demos didn't even look right) and was never capable of running anything outside the IDE (i.e. an exe).

Crosover/WineHQ is apparently going to try doing the same, but don't hold your breath given the generally very poor performance and glitches from DX9->OpenGL it currently gets.
 
I guess I'll just leave it be as it seems to be a hack attempt for XP and I thought maybe I'd actually gain some gaming performance. Great info here. Thanks for all of the replys.;)
 
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