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DirectX 10 for everyone?

With upcoming games like Halo 2 and Crysis requiring DirectX 10 in both hardware and software, it comes as a welcome surprise that a group has managed to release a preview build of a project which promises to bring DirectX10 compatibility to Windows 2000 and XP when completed. The Alky Project is also working on bringing Windows-only game releases to other platforms, like OS X and Linux.

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PS3 Owns All - 968 days 4 hours ago

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1 - Thus

will make Vista useless

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snoop_dizzle - 968 days 4 hours ago

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2 - that could be true gaming wise

But if all or most new computers are changing to vista, xp would become less and less prevelant, though that will probably take a while.

btw PS3 Owns All change the picture, you don't want that crazy guy as your avatar, pick like phil harrison or something.

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PS3 Owns All - 968 days 4 hours ago

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2.1 - How is he crazy

Tell me

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snoop_dizzle - 968 days 3 hours ago

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3 - oh that was my bad.

at first i thought that was kutaragi. never mind boy am i tired. Thats actually Hirai or whatever his name is. No he isnt as crazy as kutaragi

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hfaze - 968 days 2 hours ago

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4 - Hahaha... that would COMPLETELY take the wind out of Vista's sails... (and sales)

I would absolutely LOVE to be able to play DX10 games in an OS other than Vista... Linux would be friggin amazing, although I could live with XP.

I thought it was stupid of Microsoft to try and push Vista as a gaming platform when it is the most resource hogging OS they have put out to date! Vista merely runs OK on a system with 1GB of RAM, while XP (and Linux) would FLY if you gave it 1GB...

Here's to hoping these guys can successfully port this over to Linux!!

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Somethnnew18 - 968 days 1 hour ago

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4.1 - Well....If you take a look at it this way...

Look at vista as a new game console on the p.c.
I know that sounds really wierd...But they obviously just released it right...Like with any new GAMING PLATFORM there is a wait period for optimization...Now don't get me wrong..I know that vista can hog your system resources...I'm sure they'll completly optimize that so that you can choose exactly how much system resource you want windows to take...But do you get my point?

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Somethnnew18 - 968 days 1 hour ago

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5 - CRYTEK ENGINE IS FOR XBOX360 and PS3

No more hating on the xbox 360 you ps3 fanboys.....I love sony as much as you all do...But I'm giving it up to Xbox360...Cause I got one....I will have PS3 by the end of the summer....But I just want you all to know that just because xbox360 and ps3 don't support dx10 it's being developed not just for your precious ps3...Go to cryteks website and check out the engine specifications if you don't believe me!

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Striker D - 968 days 1 hour ago

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5.1 - I'm a fanboy!

Yeah, I have a 360 too. Gotta love the Xbox lovin' though. Sure the ps3 has folding@home, but we have awesome games. Fatal Inertia isn't even exclusive to PS3 anymore. Sony's gotta be doing something wrong.

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Rooted_Dust - 968 days 1 hour ago

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5.2 - Crytek's Engine.....

supports Direct 9 and 10. The console version of the engine will probably use a beefed up version of DX 9, unless Sony and MS are ready to launch another SKU with DX10 capable video cards.

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Somethnnew18 - 968 days 1 hour ago

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6 - I wouldn't shove too hard on that...

That wasn't where I was going...I was just stating that the hardware for the 360 isn't gentle a beast as the PS3 fanboys play it to be....The 360 still has 6 processers with more bandwidth capacity that 1 and half of a single processor on the ps 3....Somewhere in that ballpark....But obviously if you know anything about the cell, it ain't no baby toy either...Equally they are both f-ing processing machines that processing wise could take on most high end pc's in processing speed alone...But graphically we all know that there ain't a whole lot more past cry engine 2 that can be done with ps3 and xbox360 grapically...But back to the topic....Crytek engine 2 a week or two ago was stated as having been developed for ps3...And I saw no mention of the cry engine 2 for the xbox360 and I was like..Eh....Maybe the 360 isn't what I thought it was...Then I delved further into the maddhatter...And hopped into a whole driver seat....Should we see a crysis engine developed for xbox360 or ps3 and patented....Kiss the Unreal Engine goodbye forever....I am huge fan of the Unreal Engine...But the Crytek Engine 2.0 is way better in so many ways...But newayz...See mah point guys?

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gta_cb - 967 days 23 hours ago

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yeh i see your point

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