Is DX9L DX10 for Windows XP?

[SickBeast]

l=The Inquirer says so.]http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35110[/l]

I'm surprised I havne't seen that news post before.

I wonder if any DX10 features will be missing. They're gonna *have* to support DX10 on XP; Vista won't have enough of an installed base.

 

[aka1nas]

This was posted a while ago. Dx9L is the version of DX9 that Vista uses. Dx10 will never run natively on XP. It would require MS to backport the new display driver model to XP.

 

[450R]

Originally posted by: SickBeast
They're gonna *have* to support DX10 on XP; Vista won't have enough of an installed base.

Doing that would give Vista an even smaller piece of the user-base pie. DX10 + Vista = guaranteed adoption through the gaming market.

And Grossman sucks and it's -8 here! Did I mention Grossman sucks? :frown:

 

[Schadenfroh]

I really doubt PC game makers would neglect a DX9 port to all those Windows XP users anytime soon.

 

[CaiNaM]

Originally posted by: 450R

Originally posted by: SickBeast

And Grossman sucks and it's -8 here! Did I mention Grossman sucks? :frown:

it's taken you this long to figure that out?

as lovie would say, "we're 16-3 with rex!"

to which i'd reply, "yea, but you'd be 19-0 with someone good..."

as a chicago fan, you'd have been better off is Seattle would have beaten you (as they should have) - might have made them realize you guys really need a better QB. now that you made it to the SB, you can look forward to another year of Bad Rex

 

[miniMUNCH]

DX10 on XP will never happen folks... it is intractable technically on XP and it would be really stupid of MS from a marketing prospective.

But, as Schadenfroh said... new games will "support" DX9 games will be around for at least 2 more years. But, by 2008... my feeling is that PC gamers will see DX9 support depreciate (buggy DX9 game play, driver issues) such that if you are serious about playing new games then, you'll be running vista w/SP1 and a DX10 card.

This is more or less what happened with DX8 -- > DX9, IIRC but this time the change is larger. Game companies, nVIDIA, and ATI/AMD won't want to spend time/resources supporting legacy game modes and drivers.