Download DirectX 10 for Windows XP

Now DirectX 10 is available for Windows XP to download. The DirectX 10 for XP is said to be in alpha version. It is said to work for Windows XP and with directx 10 games and graphics card, they shouldbe able to play directx 10 compatible games like they play in Microsoft’s Windows Vista.



However, Cody Brocious the leader of Alky Project

has released a preview of Alky compatibility libraries for Microsoft DirectX 10 enabled games. This can be used for Windows Operating system other than Vista to play games which requires Directx 10.These libraries allow the use of DirectX 10 Games on platforms other than Windows Vista.This project was aimed to make DirectX 10 compatible games to run on Non Vista operating systems.It is said to increase hardware compatibility even on Vista, by compiling Geometry Shaders down to native machine code for execution where hardware isn’t capable of running it. No longer will you have to upgrade your OS and video card(s) to play the latest games.


Follow the following steps :


Download DirectX 10 Alky preview

which can be also used with DX10 SDK.


Now the DirectX 10 Preview contains a read me file which contains the following:

To install:
Copy d3d10.dll, d3dx10.dll, d3dx10.dll, dxgi.dll, and Nucleus.dll to C:\windows\system32\

To get the examples:

• 
  Follow the instructions on Using Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition with the Microsoft Platform SDK
• 
  Download and install the DirectX SDK

To build and run an example:

• Go to the Microsoft DirectX SDK folder, Samples, C++, Direct3D10, Tutorials, Tutorial12
• Double-click “Tutorial12_2005.sln”
• Select “Start Without Debugging” from the Debug menu.

There are a number of known issues with most of the tutorials, but they will all work to some extent. Tutorial 12 is currently the recommended example.

This above goes for XP only but if you want to install DirectX 10 on Windows Vista you may go to
Download DirectX 10.1 with Shader Model 4.1 from Windows Vista
.

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