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marraco   07-24-2009 at 03:09:33 AM

hey! this link promises DX10 on Windows XP.

http://www.techmixer.com/download- [...] indows-xp/

I would like to see benchmarks on Tomshardware (if they really work).

I found the link to it in wikipedia

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If you would read and do searches this has been talked about a lot before. It is not true dx10 it allows dx10 only games to be played on xp.

"These compatibility libraries allow the use of DirectX 10 games on platforms other than Windows 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 reason for gamer to change or upgrade the OS and video card(s) to play the latest games."
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marraco   07-24-2009 at 04:12:41 AM

marraco wrote :

hey! this link promises DX10 on Windows XP.
http://www.techmixer.com/download- [...] indows-xp/
I would like to see benchmarks on Tomshardware (if they really work).
I found the link to it in wikipedia

How is that I never read anything of it? :heink:
There is a lot of stuff on google.

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jaydeejohn   07-24-2009 at 04:41:30 AM

marraco wrote :

How is that I never read anything of it? :heink:
There is a lot of stuff on google.


Usually google is your friend :ange:
But sometimes google is evile [:jaydeejohn:6]

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megamanx00   07-24-2009 at 04:55:56 AM

Well, DX10 was originally developed for the XP ME edition (good ol buggy longhorn) before that was gutted and they practically started over to make Vista. In light of that I can see how that's possible. Still, hacking XP like that doesn't always end well. Also, current drivers have alot of optimizations and such for various games to run better on their particular architecture, the main reason modern drivers are so large, so the performance probably isn't too comparable. It would be interesting to see some benches, but I wouldn't really bother installing it myself.

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chef7734   07-24-2009 at 08:41:16 AM
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If you would read and do searches this has been talked about a lot before. It is not true dx10 it allows dx10 only games to be played on xp.

"These compatibility libraries allow the use of DirectX 10 games on platforms other than Windows 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 reason for gamer to change or upgrade the OS and video card(s) to play the latest games."

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marraco   07-24-2009 at 04:13:11 PM

Helloworld_98 wrote :

People still use XP?


Yesterday I donloaded it to install on XP. Then I found that since I installed Win 7 RC, i don't want to use xp never more.

So, I decided to wipe out my XP partition (wich is the first, so is the faster), and put Win 7 on it.

anyway, I would like to know how it performs against vista and win 7.

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Helloworld_98   07-24-2009 at 04:31:30 PM

I'd guess Win7 > Vista SP2 > XP when it comes to DX10 because Win7 is ever so slightly faster than vista, and XP would need to use an emulator for DX10 which would use up extra graphics power and ram.

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turboflame   07-25-2009 at 04:26:50 PM

The alky project was abandoned some time ago, there is no way to run DX10 in XP.

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jaguarskx   07-25-2009 at 04:49:23 PM

Helloworld_98 wrote :

People still use XP?




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coozie7   07-25-2009 at 04:58:57 PM

^ My last place of work was using Win2000 right up to the time it shut down!

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strangestranger   07-25-2009 at 06:13:20 PM

It is good to see someone hanging on with the 1900 at well Jaguar, I dusted off my own x1900 based comp recently to give to my parents, current pre built had no room for extra hard drive space so outcomes the old Armour case and everthing that was in it.

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marraco   08-04-2009 at 10:59:23 PM

I Just started this thread as comment, but I got a mail asking to mark a message as best answer.

well I cannot mark two as best, (I should have marked megamanx00 also).

chef7734 returns some interesting hints. so I marked it.

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