Direct X 10 on XP... Myth or Miracle?

Ok... I don't know about you guys, but personally, I'd rather see George W Bush stay in office, than see Vista's driver issues sprinkled with a memory hogging computer crashing operating system for as long as I live. Needless to say... I hate Vista...

However, This presents a problem, when I want to play GTA 4 (when it comes out for the PC) with the best possible graphics possible... The reason:

With DirectX 10, Microsoft has done away with the fixed function pipeline for pixel and vertex shaders, now even those are programmable. This alleviates bottlenecks in vertex heavy, or pixel heavy parts of the game. They have also taken many steps to reduce overhead on the CPU by offloading tasks like integer and bitwise instructions onto the GPU. The most important aspect is certification, to be certified for DirectX 10 the video card must meet strict feature requirements. This removes the capability bits of the past showing what the card did and did not support. You know out of the box what your new video card can do!
Source: http://www.legitreviews.com/article/487/1/

Ok... So I looked around and found the remains of the Alky project...
A project which seems to have what I'm talking about as the primary goal of the project... but... if you go to their site...
it reads...
http://alkyproject.blogspot.com/
"It is with great sadness that I announce the closing of Falling Leaf Systems, LLC. We set out over a year ago to provide users of both "old and unsupported" as well as "alternative" Operating Systems the ability to run the latest games for the PC. Unfortunately, Falling Leaf Systems was unable to achieve that goal."

What the heck does that mean?... I've heard of people making it work... they had it working... this sounds like a conspiracy... I mean come on... little guys develop long sought cure for Vista Direct X 10 blues... then they go under... it doesn't make sense... anyways...

After that I found a self extracting package. (one that would install Direct X 10 without having to do the dirty work)... however when I ran it on my system, it only changed where it says what version the direct X is... atleast... I THINK it did... the drivers are all still in their 9.0 format... atleast they SAY they are... is this normal for the upgrade?...

-this site rocks!

Tags: direct, vista, x, xp

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Permalink Reply by GranitW on September 16, 2008 at 10:44am: it might be real, but I would never call DirectX a miracle :P; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by JoelP on September 16, 2008 at 10:52am: It's a myth, if anyone tells you they got directx10 on XP it's a lie. There's no possible way.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by JavaGuy147 on September 16, 2008 at 1:15pm: im sure theres a way, just a long rewrite of code and a hack for each kind of card. wouldnt be too far fecthed, better cracks have been done in the past; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by JavaGuy147 on September 16, 2008 at 1:14pm: DirectX SUCKS. idk why companies still use it.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ian Walker on September 16, 2008 at 4:58pm: As said, Microsoft will not make DX10 for XP because it is a main selling point of Vista. DX10 may happen in XP but it will not be supported by Microsoft.

Take care.

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Permalink Reply by ObiWanJerkobi on September 16, 2008 at 5:30pm: Uh, no. I don't condone Vista software on my perfectly good XP os.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dylan on September 16, 2008 at 6:44pm: Totally a Myth.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by iscifitv on September 16, 2008 at 8:04pm: total poo..; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ninesvnsicks on September 16, 2008 at 11:03pm: I had the same problem a while back and I could never find a solution I would like to know if anyone has successfully gotten Direct X 10 to work on XP and how.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Allan Lianza on September 17, 2008 at 1:04am: Yup probably a myth. Its possible I guess... but unless I see DX10 actually running on XP then I'd call this plausible. And if it does actually work on XP I'll be downgrading all my machines back to XP.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Gary on September 17, 2008 at 8:18am: Theres dx10 released for xp on some sites long time ago but i never believed it was true. I doubt xp will get dx10 since vista needs dx10 to stay alive lol; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Mad Max on September 17, 2008 at 8:21am: Apparently XP will need a somwhat lengthy rewrite of a lot of the API to make DX10 work for it. They wrote it directly into Vista when they changed the Windows API (no longer runs on OpenGL as in XP and older Windows, it's all DX now). That's also one reason Vista runs slower, because DX is less efficient than OpenGL.; ▶ Reply to This