DX 10 for Windows Beta

[eitai2001]

Hi Guys

Thought you might like this if you don't already know.
http://www.technospot.net/blogs/download-directx-10-for-windows-xp-from-alky-project/

I'm waiting for my 8800GTS and then I might try it.

Regards

Itai

 

[jsxza]

yay! going to download and try it now

 

[MrE]

Anybody gonna give this a try?

 

[ShockG]

It doesn't work. Hasn't worked since mid last year when it was announced and couldn't possibly work without defeating the whole point of DX10. It's a wrapper at best and not a good one at it even...

 

[Asha'man X]

From what I understand, this thing is supposed to wrap DX10 and translate it to OpenGL, but as ShockG said, it hasn't worked. There were only 2 guys behind it, and eventually they gave up.

I know it's one of Microsoft's big marketing points for Vista, but maybe they have a reason for doing that. Sometimes platform locking a progam is stupid and wrong, but in some cases like DX10, the whole sets of subsystems around it have been rewritten. In this case when they say porting it to XP wasn't possible without super major changes, I actually beleive them.