[cfgeeks] Putting Vista features in XP

[Jonathan Damron]

No need to wait on Falling Leaf -- a group has already hacked the latest 
Vista only game so it also runs on XP:

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40538

Jonathan
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> http://ezinearticles.com/?Windows-XP-Revisited---Teaching-the-Faithful-Old-Dog-Some-New-Tricks&id=610102
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> "Games and Direct X 10
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> As any PC gamer will tell you, XP is (at the time of writing) the best
> operating system for games. With Vista, Microsoft introduced DirectX10
> and made it Vista only. A number of breathtaking DirectX 10 games are
> regularly plastered over the preview pages on major PC gaming websites
> and magazines. To date however, aside from a few update patches for
> older games, Microsoft’s cutting edge games for DirectX10/Vista
> basically consist of Shadowrun (an above average multiplayer FPS) and
> Halo 2 (A conversion of an old Xbox game). Re-hashing a previous
> generation console title to demonstrate your bleeding edge graphics
> technology must have made sense to someone in Microsoft but it makes
> little sense to gamers assessing if an upgrade to Vista is worth their
> money, especially in light of the performance handicap or crippled sound
> that some games exhibit under Vista. However, like every new gaming
> platform, fast forward to Christmas and XP gamers can expect to be
> enviously eyeing up the new Vista only games starting to appear. If you
> are hoping that I’m going to tell you now some way of getting DirectX 10
> to work on Vista, you are going to be disappointed. A company called
> Falling Leaf systems claims to be working on some sort of project that
> would accomplish this feat, but they still have a lot to prove
> especially considering early versions struggled to run the most basic of
> DirectX 10 demo code. Unfortunately, it looks like DirectX 10 is one
> trick that XP isn’t going to be performing any time soon, if ever."
>
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