DirectX 9.0L

[IndianScout]

After announcing that DirectX 10 will only be available for Vista, Microsoft may be releaseing DirectX 9L for WinXP.

So much for DIrectX 10 only being for Vista.


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

http://aeon.neoseeker.com/news/story/6216/

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35110

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[Trevortt]

Re: DirectX 9.0L

This is great news, nice find

[Stormy{CAN}]

Re: DirectX 9.0L

Might want to do a little more reading,

As you could quite rightly expect, Windows XP and DirectX 9 are still going to be around for some time yet. Officially Windows XP will cease to be supported at the end of 2006, but that doesn't mean it'll just vanish off home users machines (it may well vanish very quickly off corporate networks though). Application compatibility is a big factor in a new OS such that DirectX 9 applications built for Windows XP will still work under Windows Vista, and there will even be an updated version of DirectX 9 to take advantage of the new driver model in Vista ("DirectX 9.L").

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/programmi...rview/page2.asp

And then the Inquirer retracted the whole thing,

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

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.

Nice try though. this is one of those things that everyone needs to get their heads around, there will be no DX10 for XP.

[ThunderPimp]

Re: DirectX 9.0L

This was already mentioned in the tech section a few days ago in it's correct form:

http://www.totalbf2.com/forums/showp...4&postcount=21

[ConscriptVirus]

Re: DirectX 9.0L

Officially Windows XP will cease to be supported at the end of 2006

nooo...!!

[ThunderPimp]

Re: DirectX 9.0L

nooo...!!

That's not totally true. Only XP Home and Service pack 1 will lose support.

[K8T]

Re: DirectX 9.0L

9.0L will only be for DX10 compatible cards isnt this true?

[lonegunm4n]

Re: DirectX 9.0L

9.0L will work for DX9 cards.

[Stormy{CAN}]

Re: DirectX 9.0L

That's not totally true. Only XP Home and Service pack 1 will lose support.

That is only half right. Support for SP1/1a ended on the 10th of this month. Support for XP Home SP2 is the same as XP Pro SP2,

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifesupsps#Windows

[Papi4baby]

Re: DirectX 9.0L

That's funny, i just read somewhere the other day that, they have a SP3 in the works due out in 2007 or 2008.

[ThunderPimp]

Re: DirectX 9.0L

That's funny, i just read somewhere the other day that, they have a SP3 in the works due out in 2007 or 2008.

It's been pushed back to mid-2008.