gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » vista only http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:51:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 DirectX 10 for Windows XPhttp://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/08/directx-10-for-windows-xp/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/08/directx-10-for-windows-xp/#comments Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:21:05 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/08/directx-10-for-windows-xp/ We all know that Microsoft has decided to make the latest version of DirectX 10 Windows Vista only most likely to drive more sales to the new operating systems. Some independent developers have decided to create a working version of DirectX 10 for Windows XP with the goal to run any application that requires DirectX 10 also on that operating system.

The current release is a alpha release and probably only interesting for developers or coders. The plan is however to support the two games that have been released for Vista only. Halo 2 and Shadowrun are the two games that can only be installed and played using Windows Vista at the moment.

It is very likely that Microsoft will support even more games that will be published for Vista only. I would not advise anyone to install the preview yet but bookmark the page and be the first when a first official version will be released that supports the games. You can download the preview from the Falling Leaf website and keep yourself informed at the official Alky Project blog.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/08/directx-10-for-windows-xp/feed/ 4