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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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