Hi

I was wondering if XP32 or XP64 can run DX10.....looked in to it but got alot of mixed signals

does someone know :-)

No. Microsoft is trying to use DX10 to try to make you upgrade to Vista.

Some people tried to hack it for XP, but it wasn't stable.

No it can not, Microsoft says it is integrated into vista and can not be ported over to XP. There are users trying to get it working. So far there is not much success. Since vista also uses a different driver model this may be why DX10 was unable to be ported over to XP.

If you want DX10, you need vista(at least for now).

Please note there are very few games that deliver acceptable performance in DX 10 anyway, so if you are not ready for vista, just wait it out. Drivers for vista get better every single day.

does that mean that performance will improve in vista as new drivers develope so that you can run higher settings with the same graphic card when you're gaming

in theory... but in reality no

That was the hope, but until game developers learn to harness the power to use unified sharers(unified shaders can do Vertex or Pixel shading, before they had to be separate units so a game that used one did not use the other, this way they can ALL be one or the other or any number of each) better the performance is actually worse with the exception to a few games.

The game assasins creed actually ran better by using DirectX 10.1, but since it was a Nvidia "The way its meant to be played" game and Nvidia does not support DX 10.1(ATI does) the company actually removed the feature and gimped the games performance.

The potential is there, developers just need to use it. DX9 was the same when it was released

For now tho DX 10 is slower on most games.

ok thanks for the info :-)

DX10 was a pretty good way to poke and prod enthusiasts to adopt Vista. Everything was supposed to look better... run faster... and so on. Does it? Nope. Does Microsoft care? Nope. They made it. You buy it. It's really that simple to boys in Redmond.

It should, eventually. Not sure if you remember this, but it was a similar situation back in the directx8-9 transition.

ok no dx10 in xp....damn

I don't really buy that Microsoft cannot port Directx 10 over to XP. Its all a scheme to get us to use Vista.

Who cares about Directx 10. All it does is eat more of your GPU power = lower FPS which isn't worth it.

Not that M$ cant, but they dont want to as noone vould buy their crapy Vista if DX10 exist in XP as well.

Direct X is just api betwen game and OS+HW and as this it can be ported to XP.

Bah - more fud.

All the people complaining about Vista were those that complained about XP who also complained about Windows 95. Actually, probably not the latter because most of them weren't even born then. Or maybe they were, and there was some serious neonatal Windows 95 bashing going on in nursey.

I was born long time before w95, and its not only users complaining about Vista, companies as well.
My company even encourage ppl work on linux and have no plans emplement Vista in any way once XP stop to be supported.

For what i do, vista performs as well as XP. When super fetch pre loads(it learns what i use often) stuff, loads are actually faster. Game performance has caught up in most titles.

98 to XP was far worse then XP to Vista SP1 to be honest.

Agreed. After over a year with Vista now, I have to say that all the moaning doesn't make any sense to me. Yes, there were a few bugs initially (nothing horrible though), but most of them have been fixed by now. Everything I have runs perfectly, and I haven't found anything that completely refuses to run. Speed isn't a problem either.