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Old 01-30-07, 02:19 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by Potoroo
DX10 is not just DX9 with a couple of extra features. It's part of a significantly different graphics/OS architecture. It is not the simple bolt-on job too many people simply assume it would be. DX10 on XP would require major surgery.
Yes, it now would require major surgery because it was never their goal to make DX10 XP-compatible. It could have been, relatively speaking, a simple bolt-on job if they´d decided to program DX10 in a different way.
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