[geeks] Ya-HoooooO!

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Feb 1, 2008, at 1:34 PM, nate at portents.com wrote:

>> Of course, if you don't run Vista, you're increasingly going to be
>> locked out of MS-branded games.  Halo 2 for the PC, for example,
>> REQUIRES DirectX 10.  Even though it doesn't actually use any  
>> DirectX 10
>> features.  It'll refuse to even install without it.  And DirectX  
>> 10, of
>> course, will only even install on Vista.
>
> Not entirely true.  Gears of War was published recently on the PC  
> side by
> Microsoft (developed by Epic), and it supports both XP and Vista,  
> DirectX
> 9 and 10, and Microsoft even extended Games for Windows Live (the
> equivalent of XBox Live) to XP as well as Vista.

I have been hearing that Microsoft is going to end up putting the new  
graphics methods in DX9 or releasing DX10 for XP anyway.

There is no reason they can't after all.


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Shannon Hendrix
shannon at widomaker.com