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RE: Greetings!

Vester — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:43:24 GMT

There is not a DirectX for XP. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX][b]Wiki says[/b][/url]:

[quote]Direct3D 9Ex (previously known as 9.0L): allows full access to the new capabilities of WDDM while maintaining compatibility for existing Direct3D applications by putting it in a separate API. The transparency ("Glass") effects in Windows Aero rely on the D3D 9Ex code path. [b]When 9Ex was still codenamed 9.0L, there were rumors that this would be Direct3D 10 for Windows XP.[5] It was quickly pointed out that this was not the case, mainly due to lack of support for WDDM in Windows XP.[/b][6][/quote]

RE: Greetings!

z414a4d — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:47:54 GMT

Thought so. Is it going to be vista exclusive? Or do other OS's just have to wait for the chance in implement it?

RE: Greetings!

Walker — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:23:20 GMT

Okay first off

Welcome to the forums,

Yes Vista is the only system that runs DirectX 10. It bring up the gaming level by a lot. I can't use it sadly. My old *** AGP is too old ***...... Anyhow some XP drivers are compatible with Vista.

Hope your use of Vista will be a happy one. Mine is.

Greetings!

z414a4d — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:18:05 GMT

Hey! I just got my new computer set up a few days ago (Specs in Signature) and installed Windows Vista 2 nights ago. I would consider my knowledge with computers to be, intermediate.

I must say, I am very impressed with the interface. It runs beautifully with my videocard and very smooth.

However I did run into quite a few problems during installation (as do we all with windows in general), so I did not let that get me down ;)

I got all of my parts from newegg. The drivers that came with my motherboard were outdated and not compatible with vista so I had to head out to ECS's website and get the new ones..No biggie, just letting people know who may run into the same problem.

My 8800GTS driver CD was up-to-date and installed wonderfully. The only thing I was sorta bummed about was that the Nvidia firewall that is supposed to come with the drivers only comes with the XP driver install. Oh well. I figure with all these massive security features Vista has to offer the windows firewall should not be all that bad (any feedback or suggestions?).

The Dual core runs awesome, I downloaded one of the gadgets that shows the CPU usage for both cores, pretty awesome I thought.

I am a gamer (mostly World of Warcraft, and soon to be Battlefield 2142). Thats pretty much all my computer is going to be used for. I had to go Vista because...well, its the only OS supporting DX10 (That I know of, Please correct me if im wrong). I ran into a small issue installing and patching, but i wont mention that here. I just wanted to make and introductory post because i plan on becoming very active in these forums, asking many many questions :) hopefully I will be able to contribute just as much ;) Take Care everyone, And thanks for taking the time to read this.