hoffe passt hier rein.. ne sehr interessante sache..
It's called the Alky project; and the goal: trying to port DirectX 10 back to Windows XP. And although a great idea I say there are three variables that you need to get DX10 games running in Windows XP. First off, the actual game, then DX10 ... and here's where I think the project can fail .. your graphics card driver needs to be DX10 compatible. The latter one poses the biggest issue.
Anyway, Alky has released a preview of his DirectX 10 compatibility libraries. 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 isn't capable of running it. No longer will you have to upgrade your OS and video card(s) to play the latest games! The current preview allows you to run a number of examples from the DirectX SDK on Windows XP. They're not the greatest thing since sliced bread, but we want to whet your appetite. He hopes to release builds in the coming months progressing from demos to fully functional games. He also plan to post on his blog from time to time with screenshots and videos of what's to come.
Update: the programmer / author of the Alky project just posted a comment. It seems that to divert the issue I mentioned he want's to run the DX10 features not over the graphics card (GPU) .. but over the CPU.
Your graphics card does not need to support Direct3D10. Our libraries handle functionality that is missing from your card. You obviously won't get the same speed as if your card supported it, but depending on the speed of your CPU, most games should be fully playable.
- Cody Brocious
Now this is getting even more interesting because it allows DX10 gameplay with your DX9 graphics card.
also die DX10 features auf die cpu rechnen zu lassen WOW Very Happy leute die nen guten dualcore haben, können villeicht mit ne 7900gtx crysis in dx10 geniessen Very Happy
naja mal gucken wie sich das entwickelt.. bald kommen demos screenshots oda videos ^^
hier noch link von diesem projekt
http://alkyproject.blogspot.com/2007...is-blog-i.html