XbitLabs brings some grim news for Windows gamers. According to Richard Huddy (ATI) who was present at a recent DirectX 10 meeting in London Microsoft won't release DirectX 10 for Windows XP.
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Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest maker of software,
will not release next-generation graphics application programming interface (API) called DirectX 10 for the currently shipping Windows XP operating system (OS), instead, the company will keep the new API strictly for the forthcoming Windows Vista OS, despite earlier assumptions about DirectX 10 for the XP.
During a DirectX 10-related event in London, UK, Richard Huddy, ATI Technologies’ software developers relations chief, said that
Microsoft’s Vista will integrate DirectX 10 and DirectX 9 APIs for different types of hardware, but the current Windows XP will not get DirectX 10 support, as suggested some rumours earlier. For end users this means that to get the most advantages of the new-generation graphics processing units (GPUs),
the new OS will be required.
Both ATI Technologies and Nvidia Corp. planned to release hardware that supports DirectX 10 capabilities as early as in the second half 2006, however, if there will be no API, which unveils the features of the hardware, the companies may reconsider their plans.
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Biggest gamble in the PC gaming industry since the unveiling of 3Dfx? Seems so. If Vista fails there will be no future for PC gaming.
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