DirectX 9.L will be a DirectX 10 for Windows XP

DirectX 9.0 L is simply a renamed and refurbished DirectX 10 for Windows XP. It will make DirectX 10 games to work on Windows XP.

And games such as the upcoming Crysis won't work on the existing DirectX 9.0 c. they need a DirectX 9.0 L
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Sounds good, so we're not forced to upgrade to Vista to make use of DX10 games.

Source is dated 17/10/2006 though. Any updates since then?

Edit: further down the page:
UNFORTUNATELY, we were wrong about DirectX 9.0 L. We managed to confirm the existence of DirectX 9.0L but it won't be a DirectX 10 for Windows XP. It will be the other way around. It is a faster version of DirectX 9.0 that will run under Vista only.
So I have to disappoint all of you who expected to run DirectX 10 games under Windows XP (and apologise, huh, Fudo? News Ed.) as there won't be an API to supports it.
DX9.0L is a special version of DirectX 9 for Vista only that allows DX9 games to run with Vista's new driver model. It's not possible to run D3D10 on XP without running in pure software emulation.
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eh... nevermind its a lie.

UNFORTUNATELY, we were wrong about DirectX 9.0 L. We managed to confirm the existence of DirectX 9.0L but it won't be a DirectX 10 for Windows XP. It will be the other way around. It is a faster version of DirectX 9.0 that will run under Vista only.
So I have to disappoint all of you who expected to run DirectX 10 games under Windows XP (and apologise, huh, Fudo? News Ed.) as there won't be an API to supports it.
DX9.0L is a special version of DirectX 9 for Vista only that allows DX9 games to run with Vista's new driver model. It's not possible to run D3D10 on XP without running in pure software emulation.
The D3D10 API was designed around the new driver model in Vista. In addition, Aero Glass runs on DX9.0L. Aero Glass is one of the main reasons DX9.0L exists on Vista.
Our sources also confirmed that L in DirectX 9.0 L stands for Longhorn. So we are back at the beginning - you need to buy a new graphic card and a new OS to have the hardware DirectX 10 acceleration on an API that supports it.
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guys why on earth would microsoft do something so stupid

they want ppl to upgrade to vista and one of its biggest selling points is dx 10

there is no way in hell they would allow xp users dx10
 
Maybe our friends in the hackers community will work up a DX 10 hack for Windows XP. Now won't that be nice.
 
Well I am not going to upgrade to Vista so I guess I will miss out on the DX 10 only games.

And the publishers of the DX 10 only games are going to miss out on my cash.
 
as nice as in would be, it's just impossible, basically, xp just was no designed to support it, dx10 uses a very different set of commands to dx 9, dx9L will just try to patch up some holes of the dx 9c cards but won't offer and new features
 
TesterMan said:
Well I am not going to upgrade to Vista so I guess I will miss out on the DX 10 only games.

And the publishers of the DX 10 only games are going to miss out on my cash.
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in my opinion they either going to release games that will work on DX 9 and 10 or M$ will make dx10 available on windows XP which i am sure is possible.

either way if the gaming guys embrace dx 10 and Microsoft dont bother with dx 10 or something similiar they will be shooting themselves in the foot.

its not just windows XP, there is windows 2000, me, 98 which is still used by a lot of people out there.

might as well buy an xbox360 or psIII
 
What seems to not be clear to many is that the DX10 Vista only issue is not open for debate. There never was, never will be and should never be DX10 for XP. For the same reason DX9 doesn't exist for Windows 3.1X
XP and DX9 are long past their due dates and it's time for something much better :)
 
yea dx10 must be vista's biggest selling point

i cannot think of anything else that make buy it?

i love xp it works well if you format every 6 months or i should say reload it fresh :)
 
halicon said:
or M$ will make dx10 available on windows XP which i am sure is possible.
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How sure are you btw, I really want to know about this now.... I have heard a lot of people saying it is really impossible, unless they basically redid XP so that it would basically be Vista.

But then people keep coming up with the obvious M"$" theory that it just isn't being released for XP to force more people into buying Vista.

At the moment I would lean towards the first one, just from what I've read.

Oh, and I don't think DX10 is a major selling point for most people, just pretty hardcore gamers really. Its not going to make most XP users feel the need to upgrade just for that.
 
killadoob said:
i love xp it works well if you format every 6 months or i should say reload it fresh :)
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Hopefully this really is "fixed" in Vista as they claim. Theres now a service which is meant to keep performance from degrading over time. Actually they word it as "improves performance over time" but I somehow doubt that..

I'll have to wait another few months and see.

But I do remember people saying the same thing about 98... they said XP was just made for MS to make more money and 98 was perfectly fine... I'd say the jump from 98 to XP is pretty similar to XP to Vista. And I think every single time MS bring out a OS it will be the same...
 
Yeah nobody spends money to go backwards. Which is what other people seem not to understand. Who compiles 50million lines of code so that they can produce something inferior to 5million they did before? :/ Add to which there's no money in that.

It is however a good thing that people speak out when a New OS arrives, if we had to accept it like sheep then something would be terribly wrong. The doubt that people have about MS is good because it keeps them on the ball. Had it not been for FireFox, Opera etc... There would have been no IE7 and we'd still be using IE5.

As such, I support both Open Source initiatives and MS ones too. Had ti not been for the superiority of GL some time ago, there'd be no DX10 to speak off.
 
ekhaat dude there is a massive different between 98 and xp

MASSIVE
xp vs vista i dont see the difference other than things look good and run a little faster and there is dx 10?

windows 98 was shocking xp is like a ferrari and 98 is like a beat up beatle

firstly the networking on xp is amazing
no more red x (what did it say again) perform something or other

but i got my coupon and as long as i can find a fix for routesentry i will use windows vista
 
the bottom line is that xp just wasn't intended to use they new dx10 BECAUSE xp runs on dx9 and the major difference between the two is the unified shaders, dx9 uses fixed pixel and vertex while dx10 uses unifies(it can be either pixel or vertex). as soon as this new dx10 is introducted to a system that just doesn't no whats going on there will be many problems
 
killadoob said:
firstly the networking on xp is amazing
no more red x (what did it say again) perform something or other
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I wouldn't call it amazing, but 98 was just terrible. XP is a lot nicer.. but I've actually noticed that by default when installing XP the firewall doesn't allow you to LAN? Every time I install XP on someones machine it wont connect to a network, disable the firewall and it works right away :/ Not the most amazing idea that one, and using XP's network neighborhood just makes my computer freeze half the time.
 
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i dunno ive setup many a network and ive never had this problem

but i always disable the firewall once windows is loaded in
 
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