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Good point about buying a DX10 card to run under XP.  I must admit I have
not heard about the DirectX 9.0L so I think some googling is required.

On 6/4/07, Richard Davey <rich at corephp.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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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