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No Vista = No Direct3D 10

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Direct3D10 finally completes the break from the legacy fixed-function pipeline. Developers will use the programmable pipeline to emulate the older, fixed-function steps. Additionally, Microsoft had to rethink its display driver model now that the entire desktop is going 3D. The video card isn't just for games anymore. When you have a 3D desktop and give each application its own 3D window, the display driver has to be flexible and stable enough to handle the video card's increased role in the system. Microsoft split up the display driver to increase stability, to ensure that the 3D desktop stays up in the event that a game or another application crashes due to a graphics error. This change also means that Microsoft will not release DirectX 10 for Windows XP, because many of the Direct3D10 improvements will need the new Windows Vista Display Driver Model.
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http://www.gamespot.com/features/6143883/p-4.html

Programs such as games are likely already in the works which will require it.

Cocksuckers.
 
I'm sure there will be a hack for that, eventually. I guess I'm going to get Vista right about the time I upgrade my entire system.
 
Ishcabittle said:
I'm sure there will be a hack for that, eventually.
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It looks unlikely, Ish. The new D3D is probably going to be tightly integrated with Vista modules. Look how many cheap safeguards they've already added to it.

If it's possible, good. If not? Well, the people who are satisfied with XP will have to migrate en masse to Vista like PS to PS2.

It's a part of the business.
 
Thanks whatever god you believe in for BT, and pray to whatever god you believe in that enough of the bugs will be exorcised by RTM time that it's more worth full-time in its retail clothes than it was for me in its Beta jammies.

Though, to reiterate -- the main cause of crashes for me was Vista 5342's inability to recognize drivers that were incompatible. I would hazard a guess that by the time the retail versions ship, the major hardware providers will have proper drivers prepped and ready.
 
We're all going to pirate Vista when it comes out anyway, right (a stable release, preferably)? So the migration will probably just be a minor thorn in our digital sides.
 
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