DirectX 10 for Windows XP - 2008

DirectX 10 is the latest version of the DirectX suite of multimedia application programming interfaces that Microsoft has built exclusively into its latest operating system, Windows Vista. Gaming enthusiasts will only be able to access DirectX 10 via a combination of one of the latest video cards and one of the editions of Windows Vista. These libraries allow the use of DirectX 10 games on platforms other than Microsoft Vista, and increase hardware compatibility even on Vista, by compiling Geometry Shaders down to native machine code for execution where hardware isnt capable of running it. No longer will you have to upgrade your OS and video card(s) to play the latest games, revealed Cody Brocious, Lead Engineer on the Alky Project. (more…)

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