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there are quite a few DX10 cards available now, there are the 8800, 8600 and
the 8300 Nvidia range as well as the R600 which has been renamed by ATI to
the X2x00 series.

If the hardware will work under XP and they are able to fudge the API's for
the DirectDraw components then I see no reason as to why XP gamers will have
the pleasure of DX10 games like Crysis, Alan Wake, Lost Planet and Assassins
Creed.  I know that the majority of those games will be playable under DX9c
but wouldn't it be good to see them in DX10 without having to use the power
hungry Vista OS.

I will be keeping an eye on this development.




On 6/3/07, Jon Hadley <me at jon-hadley.com> wrote:
>
> > Its still in its early stages but they do claim that XP'ers will soon be
> > able to play Halo 2 and Shadowrun once they have sorted out the API's
> and
> > other coding.
>
> Assuming they have a DX10 capable card, of which there are fairly few
> available atm?
>
> Jon Hadley
> http://jon-hadley.com
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