DirectX 9.L will be a DirectX 10 for Windows XP

Dark Star · 17-10-2006, 12:21 PM

DirectX 9.L will be a DirectX 10 for Windows XP

WE MANAGED TO glean a few facts about the upcoming DirectX 9.0 L we told you about .

DirectX 9.0 L is simply a renamed and refurbished DirectX 10 for Windows XP. It will make DirectX 10 games to work on Windows XP.

And games such as the upcoming Crysis won't work on the existing DirectX 9.0 c. they need a DirectX 9.0 L

One of the biggest issues is the fact that Nvidia or ATI won't have any mainstream or entry-level cards until at least mid- to end of Q1 2007. This suggests that if Vista tips up around the beginning of the year, gamers will be turned off by it.

Electronic Arts, the publisher of Crysis, wants to sell hundreds or thousands, even millions of copies and we doubt that Nvidia can produce and sell that many Geforce 8800 GTX and GTS cards.

It will be interesting to see whether the Windows XP Crysis will be different from the Vista ones.

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Night_virus · 17-10-2006, 12:33 PM

Waiting for DirectX 10 download...
I want it....

hellrider · 17-10-2006, 01:37 PM

Its already available in Vista, for XP wait till Dx9.0L is released!!

Night_virus · 17-10-2006, 01:42 PM

When will this release...
I am waiting......

**bakuryu** · 17-10-2006, 08:19 PM

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Its already available in Vista, for XP wait till Dx9.0L is released!!

The strange thing is that ........ when I run the DirectX 9.0c Web updater in Vista, it detects updates and downloads them. I wonder what updates does the 9.0c updater detects for directX 10

blntechie · 18-10-2006, 02:01 PM

I know that directx is used for gaming and graphics purpose.can i know more abt directx.is activex and directx r different.tell me that also.

hellrider · 18-10-2006, 06:53 PM

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UNFORTUNATELY, we were wrong about DirectX 9.0 L. We managed to confirm the existence of DirectX 9.0L but it won't be a DirectX 10 for Windows XP. It will be the other way around. It is a faster version of DirectX 9.0 that will run under Vista only.
So I have to disappoint all of you who expected to run DirectX 10 games under Windows XP (and apologise, huh, Fudo? News Ed.) as there won't be an API to supports it.
DX9.0L is a special version of DirectX 9 for Vista only that allows DX9 games to run with Vista's new driver model. It's not possible to run D3D10 on XP without running in pure software emulation.
The D3D10 API was designed around the new driver model in Vista. In addition, Aero Glass runs on DX9.0L. Aero Glass is one of the main reasons DX9.0L exists on Vista.
Our sources also confirmed that L in DirectX 9.0 L stands for Longhorn. So we are back at the beginning - you need to buy a new graphic card and a new OS to have the hardware DirectX 10 acceleration on an API that supports it.

source::
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35140

**bakuryu** · 18-10-2006, 08:49 PM

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is activex and directx r different.

yeah .. LOL they are totally different. Search in WIkipedia for more info on Activex (used for the web frequently in IE) and DirectX is a collection of API's for enhanced multemedia effects, etc, especially game graphics on Windows.

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