DX10 FOR XP! - Page 3

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There is a flaw that not one person is talking about.
The sidebar in vista does not play well with crossfire at all.
I have a system with 16Gb ram and two shader model 4.1 crossfire cards.
I turn off the sidebar, everything is great, I turn on the sidebar and it starts self installing multiple sidebar apps and freezes my rig.
I trained through Masters Institute before they went bankrupt and have done some beta testing for microsoft.
So far, the guys over at msoft cannot solve this. I wish they would either solve it or make it easier for gamers who are noobs to disable some Vista addons that could interfere with a gaming platform.
When you ask Microsoft techs about it, do you know what pat answer email you often get?
The blah blah blah about how they are not building the vista os for gamers at all, but mostly to attract businesses.
It is almost a subliminal...go buy our stand alone gaming platform if you want to play.
I am not any happier with Mac either.
I am very grateful for all the people in pc land who are developing apps to better enable gaming across multiple platforms.

I have two machines one has an ATI Radeon X1950
the other has ATI Radeon HD2900 both running XP
It doesn`t matter if it`s Vista or XP you need a decent
Graphics card to get the best out of DX10.
I run KM Softwares DX10R2 on both machines and the
improvement on DX10 games is HUGE. Anyone who says
this doesn`t work on XP is an Idiot.
I also do a lot of work on Vista and if you know what you
are doing tweaking not just the OS but also the
motherboard setup on laptops and desktops you can
get Vista flying, but there are tricks you need to learn
to get the best out of both XP and Vista.

Are you actually running DX10? Can you produce screenshots beyond the text Direct X Version: DX 10 in DXdiag? How can you be definitively certain that you are running DX10 and not DX10 in DX9 mode? Your link appears to be a dead one, so I can't comment on it.

What I can comment on, however, is how I've never seen screenshots from Windows XP showing the difference between DX9 and this so-called DX10 for XP. Until someone can produce evidence beyond screenshots of dxdiag, I'll continue to say that DX10 for XP is non-existant.

No trolling please. kthnxbi