DirectX 10 on platforms other than Vista

[Eóin]

Read about this in a magazine Linux Format, it currently only aims for XP support but is talking about Linux and OS X versions. See the site for Falling Leaf System a company set by the developer.

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Also the wine project are working on their own port, and it has be accepted as a Google Summer of Code project.

Google accepted ten Wine proposals in 2007:

• "Improve sound in wine" by Maarten Lankhorst, mentored by Marcus Meissner
• "Improve Wine's rich edit implementation" by Matthew Finnicum, mentored by Ulrich Czekalla
• "Improve Wine's rich edit implementation" by Matthew Finnicum, mentored by Ulrich Czekalla
• "The DIB Engine" by Jessie Laine Allen, mentored by Huw D M Davies
• "Implementing mscoree.dll and Mono-WINE bridge" by Bryan DeGrendel, mentored by James Hawkins
• "Tablet PC support in Wine" by Carl John Klehm, mentored by Daniel Richard Kegel
• "Beginning of Direct3D10 implementation" by András Kovács, mentored by Stefan Dösinger
• "Improve WIne's built-in text editors" by Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes, mentored by Eric Pouech
• "Windows Printing subsystem bridge (i.e. use WIN32 drivers to print from wine)" by Marcel Partap, mentored by Detlef Riekenberg
• "CHM compiler" by Miikka Viljanen, mentored by Jacek Caban
• "Improve Wine portability, make Solaris x86/amd64 a first-class supported platform" by Albert Lee, mentored by Juan Lang

-http://wiki.winehq.org/SummerOfCode

[f0dder]

Interesting - there has been changes to the driver model (which, with time, might bring some improvement, but which for now only makes you lose a few fps). I've always claimed that there wasn't any real good reason why you couldn't have DX10 on XP though, and this might just end up being the proof