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Old February 1, 2008, 02:22 PM
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If only someone hacked it so DX10 would work in XP.
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Old February 1, 2008, 03:03 PM
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Supposedly some people have. Don't know whether it's true or not.
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Old February 1, 2008, 03:34 PM
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Nah, I've downloaded a bunch of "xp dx 10 hacks"...they're ALL bogus right now. Usually just some scumbag wanting to boost his rapidshare points number to get a free month. With 9 time out of 10 its just the latest dx9 patch so no harm no foul....that 10th time....luckily I run everything in a vmware sandbox ;)
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Old February 1, 2008, 05:29 PM
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Well really, why would you need DX10 on XP? Nothing right now needs it except 3DMark Vantage, so until some really good DX10 only games come out, or a game that's a lot better in DX10 than DX9...

Anyway I say if you want DX10 just get Vista. It's not that bad anymore.
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LOL never did like artificial boundaries. There is NO reason that DX10 can't be rolled up into XP via a "SP3", except MS greed. Plus if I ever want to run Windows ME 2.0 / Windows XP "turtle edition" I'll just wait for Server 2008...FTW ;)
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XP and DX0 are old tech. There are plenty of old tech benchmarks for them. Vista and DX10 is new tech. It was time for a new benchmark for them. I fail to see why anyone is even remotely surprised since this is how Futuremark has made all their benchmarks.
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Old February 2, 2008, 01:53 PM
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Well Vista isn't that big of an improvement to me. Just give me the vista skin for xp and then DX10. Well I already have vista home premium.
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Time to plan the next build, it state I have the minimum required to run it....minimum...wtf? lol
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Old February 2, 2008, 07:13 PM
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love your avatar. Wheres the any key?
Well if your comp is the minimum then like 1.5% of the market will be able to run it.
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LOL never did like artificial boundaries. There is NO reason that DX10 can't be rolled up into XP via a "SP3", except MS greed. Plus if I ever want to run Windows ME 2.0 / Windows XP "turtle edition" I'll just wait for Server 2008...FTW ;)
They did some major changes with the driver model in Vista, and to support DX10 on XP would take a lot of time and money (not that they don't have any money...). And as has been said, XP is getting pretty old anyway.
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