Gabe Newell: DirectX 10 for Vista was a mistake
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| In an interview with heise online, Gabe Newell, president of Valve Software,
| said that Microsoft made a terrible mistake releasing DirectX 10 for Vista
| only and excluding Windows XP. He said this decision affected the whole
| industry as so far only a very small percentage of players can use DirectX
| 10.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/94869/from/rss09
Related:
Valve survey shows hundreds of thousands steamed up
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| However, the survey also shows how far Microsoft et al have to go
| - currently, DX10-capable gamers (ie those with Vista and a DX10 card)
| make up 1.21% of the gaming population.
| ^^^^^
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40049
Valve questions Microsoft's commitment to PC gaming
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| Half-Life 2 developer Valve thinks that Microsoft's current
| "Games for Windows" marketing push is a cynical ploy to sell
| more copies of Windows Vista, rather than a genuine effort to
| invigorate the PC gaming market.
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http://tomshardware.co.uk/2007/03/12/valve_questions_microsofts_commitment/
Vista-only game cracked
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| Falling Leaf Studios had previously reported that they were working
| on the 'Alky Project' that would contribute 'Alky Compatibility
| Libraries' to allow the successful running of Halo 2 and Shadowrun
| on Windows XP machines.
|
| Looks like it was a lot simpler than that.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40538
Hacked DX10 for Windows appears
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| A chap called Cody Brocious from San Diego, California, claims to
| have started to create an wrapper for Windows executables so that
| they can be ran on another operating system, with no prejudice
| about that operating system.
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| A year in, the Alky Project has gone live under the cover of a
| company Falling Leaf Systems. Members of its Sapling Program will
| be able to get the wrappers for DirectX10 applications and run
| them not just on DX10 hardware under Windows XP, but with some
| DX9 hardware as well.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39095
Inside CNET Labs: Lamenting DirectX 10
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| We compared the same title side by side on a system running DX10 on Vista to
| the same title on an identical system running DX9 on XP, and it's
| difficult--sometimes impossible--to detect significant differences in how the
| games look or perform.
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http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9750536-1.html
Adding DX10 has "done nothing"
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| Having tested the DX10 rendering path against the DX9 version, the chaps at
| the fantastically named Elite Bastards say that they can't "Help but feel a
| little disappointed to see yet another game where the inclusion of DirectX 10
| functionality has done nothing for the title either graphically or from
| performance standpoint".
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41043
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