GTX 560 TI & DX9, DX10, DX11

[Peter Tsang]

Folks,
Now that I have a DX11 cards but some of my games are only DX9. And I run them on XP SP3.
Say Crysis Warhead uses DX10, can I download and install DX10 on my XP SP3 and run the game with DX10? Also where I might find a complete DX10 ?
Thanks!!

 

[Final8y]

Folks,
Now that I have a DX11 cards but some of my games are only DX9. And I run them on XP SP3.
Say Crysis Warhead uses DX10, can I download and install DX10 on my XP SP3 and run the game with DX10? Also where I might find a complete DX10 ?
Thanks!!

No you need W7.

 

[Surveyor]

There were/are some hacks to get DirectX 10 into XP but how successful this is I don't know and you would try it at your own risk.

I'm not sure if the same applies to DirectX 10.1.

There are no hacks for DirectX 11 as far as i know.

Edit

Glad to see your Q6600 is still running at around 3.7GHz

 

[cmndr_andi]

Hi there,

I believe XP only supports up to DX9, so DX10 (or 11) just won't work on that OS. This means for playing games you will need to run them in DX9 mode - however this isn't a massive deal since the actual in-game difference between DX9 and DX10 modes in crysis (and presumably crysis warhead since they use the same engine) are very small and most of the big changes can be implemented with DX9 any way.

The big issue you may face is that increasingly games don't support XP - for example BF3 won't.

 

[bells]

DX11 only works on windows 7 or Vista

 

[Peter Tsang]

Thanks folks I am beginning to understand how DX works now.