Windows Vista vs Windows XP

**Lemur** · 01-05-2008, 06:38

Everybody raise your hand if you think Microsoft is being completely honest about it.

**Evil_Maniac From Mars** · 01-07-2008, 03:26

Wasn't there somebody who linked an article about someone who managed to mod XP to include DX10?

**Lemur** · 01-07-2008, 03:55

That was me. A group of modders realized there was no technical reason why DX10 couldn't be ported to XP, so they started work on it.

Here's a little more info. Verdict? There is no technical reason XP cannot support DX10. It's just Microsoft trying to force us to upgrade to Windows Me 2.

There's also a group that's trying to produce commercial virtualizations of DX10 and DX9 for other platforms, which is pretty nifty. Here's their download page.

**caravel** · 01-07-2008, 09:28

Originally Posted by sapi

If what they've been saying about the architecture is correct that shouldn't be possible

Originally Posted by Lemur

That was me. A group of modders realized there was no technical reason why DX10 couldn't be ported to XP, so they started work on it.

Here's a little more info. Verdict? There is no technical reason XP cannot support DX10. It's just Microsoft trying to force us to upgrade to Windows Me 2.

There's also a group that's trying to produce commercial virtualizations of DX10 and DX9 for other platforms, which is pretty nifty. Here's their download page.

You took the words right out of my mouth. There is no technical reason why DirectX cannot run on XP, it is simply M$ that don't want it to.

I remember reading something a few weeks ago about something called the "alky project", I can't check out Lemur's second link as it blocked at my workplace by their content filters.

**Lemur** · 01-07-2008, 16:49

My link is to the download page of the Alky project. They're trying to go commercial with it, which is fine by me.

**Xiahou** · 01-07-2008, 18:35

Originally Posted by Lemur

My link is to the download page of the Alky project. They're trying to go commercial with it, which is fine by me.

Uh oh....

Welcome to the Falling Leaf Systems website. Unfortunately, we have ceased business operations. However, we have decided to Open Source all code created to this point for both the Alky Converter and the Alky Compatibility libraries. Also provided is an archived copy of Alky for Applications 1.0 (formerly Project VAIO).

At least they open-sourced their work.