Dx10 For XP?

In case you haven't heard I am going to buy a new PC to finally play Crysis and uhh Viva pinata.

Now: I don't know whether to get for my OS XP or Vista. I have heard that you can now download Dx10 for XP. Is this true?

What OS do you think I should acquire either way though?

Just go with Vista, the world's moving on and so should you.Kev_Boy

What about all the problems of compatibility and what not? Perhaps its all a setup to get us away from Vista!!

For a start you'll have slightly better performance in XP compared to Vista all round. I don't know much about the DX10 in XP hack but even if it works you'll barely be able to tell the difference. Most games that boast vastly better effects in DX10 are artificial, like Crysis where the Very High settings are just hidden for DX9 but it's capable of doing nearly the same effects if you change the config files. There is another game, can't remember the name now, but the DX10 mode looks vastly better, but it's because it uses a completely different texture set to the DX9 mode.

DX10 really isn't all it's cracked up to be and I doubt we'll be seeing any benefits from it until developers are only working with DX10 and we're on to 2nd or 3rd generation of hardware that supports it.

My advice would be to go with XP and carry on withDX9, forget DX10 fornow,then when you buy your next system, go with Vista. Besides, by then there will only be Vista available if you want a Windows based system anyway.

Have fun

The directX10 for XP is just a homemade wrapper, it just tries to emulate DirectX10 so it would be the slowest option by far and last time I checked it was only used for a few DX10 demos and I am 99% won't work with actual games.DJGOON

Should I go with Vista then?

[QUOTE="DJGOON"]The directX10 for XP is just a homemade wrapper, it just tries to emulate DirectX10 so it would be the slowest option by far and last time I checked it was only used for a few DX10 demos and I am 99% won't work with actual games.biggest_loser

Should I go with Vista then?

I never really liked Vista and any of my friends who used it did have problems (but that was a while ago). Honestly for games now and in the short to mid term go with XP. If you want Halo 2 on PC then u will need vista but for Crysis you can get graphics that look virtually identical to DX10 but using XP by modifying the config files.

theres another topic on right now with the exact samequestion! weird huhaussieboy911

Really!? I wonder which pathetic imbecile came up with that! The ol' fool probably even has his own poll complete with attempted humour.....yeesh, what an oaf!

No you cannot have dx10 on XP. But you can have dx10 features in Crysis by doing a minor tweak. Besides the performance is much better on xp anyways. I dont see any reason for anyone to get Vista. Xp is much better and reliable.