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DirectX 10 Available for Download Outside of Windows VistaFor Windows XP |
By Marius Oiaga, Technology News Editor
25th of April 2007, 12:29 GMT
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DirectX 10 is the latest version of the DirectX suite of multimedia application programming interfaces that Microsoft has built exclusively into its latest operating system, Windows Vista. Gaming
enthusiasts will only be able to access DirectX 10 via a combination of one of the latest video cards and one of the editions of Windows Vista.
Well, this is no longer the case, as an independent project is already making DirectX 10 for Windows XP available for download. "I'm proud to release a preview of our DirectX 10 compatibility libraries. These libraries allow the use of DirectX 10 games on platforms other than Microsoft 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 longer will you have to upgrade your OS and video card(s) to play the latest games," revealed Cody Brocious, Lead Engineer on the Alky Project.
According to Brocious, Alky Project current offerings are just a preview designed to give a taste of the DirectX SDK on Windows XP. However, in the coming months, the project plans to grow from the examples that it has delivered with the present release and to evolve to full games. Currently, the download is available via Falling Leaf Systems, weighing in at 824 KB and contains written instructions on how to install the files. Brocious did promise that a complete installer will be made available in the future.
With Windows Vista, Microsoft has also overhauled the DirectX driver architecture in the operating system. However, Microsoft does not offer backward compatibility with previous Windows platforms for the new Windows Display Driver Model in Vista.
Alky's DirectX 10 Compatibility Libraries Preview is available for download here.
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| Comment #4 by: Monkeyman on 22 Dec 2007, 05:22 GMT |  reply to this comment | This is all well and good people,but is it functional as of yet? |
| Comment #5 by: THE DUDE on 06 Jan 2008, 04:16 GMT | reply to this comment | Nice Now we dont have to wait Pi**ing Off Microsoft Sayin awww i want direct x10 games in windows xp cause we can know thnx to this cool dude and... BTW this dosent mean you will play those games in directx 10 format it just brings compatibility with directx 10 games into directx 9.0c |
| Comment #5.1 by: ocelot on 20 Jul 2008, 08:53 GMT | Well, DUDE, you're completely wrong, so either you didn't read the article properly, or you just didn't understand it.
What it does, is rewrites the complex dx10 coding into a basic, albeit long code that any basic vid card can read. this includes bits of the coding that even dx10 would fail to read/render. it DOES in fact supply dx10 quality. |
| Comment #6 by: ?? xD on 03 Feb 2008, 01:34 GMT | reply to this comment | Heys but can i play like Halo 2 in windows XP ???? or i cant?? |
| Comment #7 by: akhiro on 27 Mar 2008, 04:30 GMT | reply to this comment | Wow!!! Great!!! i Can now enjoy stunning graphics without sacrificing performance!! vista is known for its slowness and RAM eater!!! hehehe.. I hope this will soon available to download!!! thnks for the Developers!! keep up the good work! GOD BLESS!! |
| Comment #8 by: gerhardSa on 16 Apr 2008, 12:31 GMT | reply to this comment | Fake...wont work....XP does not understad the dx10 coding, and dx10 has already been compiled....no way to change the coding or expand the capability and flexibility for XP to understand it. unless this company "Alky" has an insider at microsoft to get the source code for this...No way...wont work |
| Comment #8.1 by: ham_cosmos on 01 May 2008, 00:10 GMT | actually it does work. Alky built a compatibility layer around the dx10 libraries from the sdk. you don't need the source code to do this, just the sdk and api information about the libraries also included. |
| Comment #8.2 by: TCZ on 30 Jul 2008, 17:09 GMT | You are such a noob. When you dont know what your talking about you should just shut up. Coding.. pfff... haha hilarious. |
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