NOT DirectX 10 On Windows XP. Ignore.

[TheXel48]

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[JAYDEEJOHN]

I posted about this 3 months ago, so now they have a patch? Hmmm, with the patched DX10 games out now that dont do alot anyways, Ima waitin on this one

 

[blade85]

and yet again....an unknown prog being posted by someone we hardly know.

I am not gonna install anything till someone else tries it and confirms what it does :roll:

 

[glupee]

and yet again....an unknown prog being posted by someone we hardly know.

I am not gonna install anything till someone else tries it and confirms what it does :roll:

seconded.
(not that i have a dx10 card :lol: )

 

[blade85]

and yet again....an unknown prog being posted by someone we hardly know.

I am not gonna install anything till someone else tries it and confirms what it does :roll:

seconded.
(not that i have a dx10 card :lol: )

nither do i, but you know...just to be safe :lol:

 

[No1sFanboy]

Just curious what your motivation is for joining the forum today and starting three new threads to promote this.

When DX10 is made to run well on xp it will be widely reported....IMHO.

 

[No1sFanboy]

Here is some info that suggests it is only a preview.

Link

 

[sailer]

Not worth it. I'll just wait for Microsoft to make a real patch or something like that.

I doubt that will happen. If Microsoft did it, then they would kill the main reason most people have for buying Vista, DX10. After all, why would I buy Vista and all the crude that comes with it, including slower frame rates, if I could patch DX10 into my XP OS and save a lot of money, work, and headaches?

 

[dj_taboo]

bleh

 

[mitch074]

As of now, the only project I know that could make DX10 work on XP is... Wine - by creating a DX10 wrapper over OpenGL 2.1, like they did for DX1-9.
The wrapper should become part of libwine as well as allow Linux users to play DX10 games on Linux.
Implementing the stubs and architecture of DX10 in Wine is a Google Summer of Code 2007 project.

 

[merwan]

hang on here, i just got a 8800 gts 640mb today and have windows xp. is there an official patch for windows xp thats needed to run D10X games too?

if there is, send me the link please.

also, what name some Dx10 games please so i have an idea?

 

[DJ_Jumbles]

Merwan- DONT DO IT!!! Well, dont unless you want to have to reinstall windows. I don't know what this patch will do and neither does anyone else. If in doubt as to something's intent or source, don't install it.
DX10 gaming isn't worth it right now and the only things that are available that support DX10 are demos at this point, with the games coming out around October or so, so there is no rush to grab something that is of questionable content/intent.
Just my 2 cents.

 

[mitch074]

as has been mentioned, this is probably a hoax. Now, you might not need to patch DX10 apps to run so much as you'd need to fool them (Windows XP returns the version NT 5.1 while Vista returns NT 6.0). After that, you need to reproduce the required APIs - meaning that you'd probably have a greater chance to make everything work correctly with IE7 + .Net 3.0 + WMP 11 installed on top of a DX10 patch.

Now, what solutions would allow you to use DX10 on WinXP?
Solution 1:
- backport DX10 libraries
- install DX10-compatible drivers (would require patching Windows XP's kernel due to different hooks).
Solution 2:
- backport DX10 libraries
- hack DX9 drivers so as to make those work with DX10 libraries (would require complete reverse engineering of Nvidia and Ati hardware, and reprogramming drivers for those)
Solution 3:
- reprogram DX10 libraries to translate DX10 calls and HLSL ops into OpenGL calls and GLSL ops.

The latter solution is actually the most simple. It merely requires good OpenGL drivers. HLSL and GLSL map one to the other almost perfectly. DX10 calls are not that different from DX9 ones.

Solution 3 is, as I understand it, what the Wine project is implementing.

Damn, I feel like I'm back to the Voodoo days, when people spent a lot of time creating wrappers to make Glide work on non-Voodoo hardware...

 

[merwan]

mitch074, all this too much for me.


listen, can i just do nothing and just play the game stalker please?

 

[The_Abyss]

Yes, ignore this fool and his talk of DX10 patches. Your system is fine as it is - go forth and game.

 

[FeareX]

Well i will try it, since my windows needs to be reïnstalled anyways

I will post the results later... and if i don't my computer has crashed and im on a holiday in portugal :lol:

 

[FeareX]

lol, well i downloaded it. Unpacked it. It was a .exe file so only by that you shouldn't trust it.

BUT, i clicked on it, computer was busy and the file disapeared :lol: . So now i don't dare to reboot because i think it wont boot up anymore... but since im going away tomorrow i just let it on for the night...

 

[weskurtz81]

Post back and let us know what happened.

 

[jonisginger]

Ahem. Windows XP ONLY supports DX9. You can't just apply a 1.5mb patch. Not a chance.

 

[pshrk]

Could install it on a virtual machine... maybe with a cow filesystem and some forensics tools?

 

[jonisginger]

Be our guest...I don't have VPC

 

[blade85]

LOL FeareX :lol: :lol: :lol:

let us know if anything happened :lol:

 

[jonisginger]

Thats it FeareX take one for the team....

 

[mitch074]

in short: no. Not yet at least.

 

[Techfan]

Ignore that crap probably is a joke or somekind of a virus. All GFX drivers for Windows XP support DX9. Unless Nvidia and ATI they are on to something.