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Hi Clive,

Sunday, June 3, 2007, 10:14:38 AM, you wrote:

> I didn't think this was going to  be possible but it looks as though a group
> of programmers are trying to achieve this.

> http://www.fallingleafsystems.com/

> 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.

> Maybe there is hope and no need to use Vista.

Who in their right mind would buy a monster DX10 card if they *didn't*
have Vista already? It's not the sort of thing you do on the off
chance that a bunch of hackers manage to cobble together something
that could possibly run a game or two once things are 'sorted out'.

And I hate to say it, but to make it worth anything they'll not only
have to get Halo 2 and Shadowrun working, but they'll need to port
over Games for Windows too, because Shadowrun is a multi-player game
at heart, and Halo 2 certainly is once the single player campaign is
done and dusted :)

Personally I'm looking forward to the final release of DirectX 9.0L -
true DX9 support for Vista which is faster than the XP equivalent. It
will bring the vast majority of games that fail on Vista back into the
fold again.

Cheers,

Rich
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