DirectX 9.L will be a DirectX 10 for Windows XP

(Strogg) #1

Delete This Post!!!

(Nail) #2

did you read this post in that thread ?

UNFORTUNATELY, we were wrong about DirectX 9.0 L. We managed to confirm the existence of DirectX 9.0L but it won’t be a DirectX 10 for Windows XP. It will be the other way around. It is a faster version of DirectX 9.0 that will run under Vista only.
So I have to disappoint all of you who expected to run DirectX 10 games under Windows XP (and apologise, huh, Fudo? News Ed.) as there won’t be an API to supports it.
DX9.0L is a special version of DirectX 9 for Vista only that allows DX9 games to run with Vista’s new driver model. It’s not possible to run D3D10 on XP without running in pure software emulation.
The D3D10 API was designed around the new driver model in Vista. In addition, Aero Glass runs on DX9.0L. Aero Glass is one of the main reasons DX9.0L exists on Vista.
Our sources also confirmed that L in DirectX 9.0 L stands for Longhorn. So we are back at the beginning - you need to buy a new graphic card and a new OS to have the hardware DirectX 10 acceleration on an API that supports it.

(iwound) #3

did you read the quote further down :?: lol beaten to it

(Dr_Tenma) #4

I really don’t know that much technical info about computers, but what good is DirectX 10 if you don’t have a video card with DX10 features, shader model 4.0 and all that jazz?

(Strogg) #5

Well i Guess I miss that part lol my Bad So just delete the post!!!

Guess I was just excited about DirextX 10 for XP

O’well life goes on

(Nail) #6

none at all, it requires “Vista” as well as dx10 vid card

(McAfee) #7

OpenGL f0r teh win!!!1111

Btw, what’s up with OpenGL 2.1?

(Nail) #8

general info here:
http://www.opengl.org/documentation/specs/

(McAfee) #9

I’ve been there before, was hoping for a post about: “how well is the relationship between opengl 2.1 and the community going”.

eg: what video cards/games are rated at opengl 2.1

(Nail) #10

looks like ATI 9600 and newer and nVidia 7300 and newer will

another interesting site:
http://www.realtech-vr.com/glview/extensions.html

(McAfee) #11

I’m using a 7600 GT (PCIe) and it doesn’t seem to support:
“Shading Language version: 1.20”

Everything else is supported and i’m 66% OpenGL 2.1
I’m using the drivers 93.81 straight from nvidia’s nzone.