Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> BTW, I'm a little confused here. Benny seems to think that DirectX 10 is 
>> available for WinXP, while I was under the impression that it's for 
>> Vista only. [Part of of the M$ plan to force everybody to upgrade.] 
> 
>   DirectX 10 is Vista only because it's a complete rewrite of the entire
> system and depends on the complete rewrite of certain parts of the OS
> they did for Vista. It just can't work in XP because XP doesn't have
> the architecture necessary to run DX10.

Right. That makes sense.

>> However, Wikipedia at least seems to suggest that Crysis works on XP, 
>> despite using DirectX 10... so... er... wuh?
> 
>   Crysis *can* use DX10, but it can also be run on DX9, without the
> DX10-specific features (although, as has been demonstrated, many of
> the alleged "DX10-specific" features used by the game are actually
> supported by DX9 after all).

...so what you're saying is, Crysis can use DirectX 9 or DirectX 10, 
whichever is available. (?)

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