scott wrote:
>> I find that a little surprising - AFAIK, Vista uses a radically 
>> different internal graphics pipeline, so you'd think it wouldn't be 
>> possible to make it work on XP at all.
> 
> I imagine they've hacked the DX9 drivers to use some of the hardware 
> functionality that is only exposed under DX10 (and thus only in Vista).  
> I would highly doubt that they have managed to replicate the Vista 
> graphics system on XP, so there is no way all applications designed for 
> DX10 are going to work.  To do that they would have had to pretty much 
> rewrite the whole Vista graphics system and parts of the OS GUI to run 
> on XP, which seems a bit unlikely.

They don't hack the DX9 drivers, and they don't replicate DX10 - they 
actually trick DX10 into installing on XP, so you get full functionality.

Such an act, of course, is against the EULA, and I wasn't willing to 
risk hosing my system enough to try it out - but it seemed interesting, 
at least :)

...Chambers

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