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Old July 5, 2008, 07:51 AM
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Can i play dx10.1 games on 32 bit xp os?
Or do i have to run windows vista 32 bit os to run DX10.1 games?
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Old July 5, 2008, 08:32 AM
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Officially you can not get DX10 under XP. Unofficially.... a little birdy told me just yesterday that there's a fairly stable DX10 for XP out in the wild....
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Old July 5, 2008, 08:46 AM
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Officially you can not get DX10 under XP. Unofficially.... a little birdy told me just yesterday that there's a fairly stable DX10 for XP out in the wild....
Wellllllllllll now looks like i am gonna go huntin :) lol
Loads google and gets to huntn :)
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Old July 5, 2008, 08:49 AM
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So i went huntn !!! lol them are some wascly fairys i tell ya lol , but i bagged me one:)
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Googling has brought me a bunch of links from last year.
Care to share?
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Old July 5, 2008, 03:45 PM
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Googling has brought me a bunch of links from last year.
Care to share?
By PM only I presume......... :)

Seems I'm guilty of taking this discussion to places better left unmentioned.

Let's just say it's out there and leave it at that.
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I didn't think that was on the bad side of things. My bad.
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Old July 6, 2008, 04:40 AM
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I didn't think that was on the bad side of things. My bad.
Heh... it's certainly a "grey" area, if not completely black.

Not your fault though... I'm the one who brought it up. :)
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I'd also like see this fairy of yours (even though its just curiousity, I already run Vista).
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