DirectX 9.L will be a DirectX 10 for Windows XP @ The Inquirer

Regeneration · Posted by Regeneration on October 16th, 2006, 12:36 PM

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. One of the biggest issues is the fact that Nvidia or ATI won't have any mainstream or entry-level cards until at least mid- to end of Q1 2007. This suggests that ig Vista tips up around teh beginning of tehyear gamers will be turned off by it.

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11:25 AM

Sounds good to me!

I mean Vista is such a resource hog, and that fancy smancy 3D desktop running in the background (an possibly the lack of accerated sound...) is supposed to slow games down by 10% to 15%, even though DX10 hardware is supposed to be 4X faster...

All I know is that I want to hold out on Vista for a while. I'll sympathise with those of you who are having "issues" of course.

But this is one beta where I've decided to opt out.

I just hope all the dissatisfied customers will band together and bludgeon MS into some semblance of submission. That's the only way it will ever get "fixed".

But it will be sad indeed if games next year, in fact, do run faster on 9.L than DX10. Because that eliminates the only REAL reason gamers have for upgrading to Vista.