"DX10" possible in Windows XP for Crysis?

[YG_Bot]

Well, that's what this person is claiming (thanks for the link, Arathorn!), so naturally I decided to give it a bash. Have a look at what you actually get.


Read entire article: http://www.yougamers.com/news/13605_..._xp_for_crysis

[darkneo]

And another lie from Crytek...

[hornycaptain]

ah well they did theire best! But it looks fine to me though.

[Nick[FM]]

It does look sweet, and I have a feeling this whole shader-thing is a marketing decision. They need to have something special for gamers with DX10 hardware, and forcing some shaders to be "DX10"-only is one way to do it. :)

[LuckyNV]

busted! hahaha :D

[Jarnis]

Ah, but what now...?

Will the final Crysis remove the ability to tweak some of the missing shaders back in, or will they be artificially limited to DX10 only? If they remove them, customers will cry foul, and it could even harm the sales of the game. If they leave them in (or even make them officially available), the case for DX10 in Crysis is very weak (potentially pissing off video card manufacturers and Microsoft, who are expecting that Crysis will be the great savior and sell boatload of Vista and DX10 cards for them)

Damned if they do, damned if they don't.

[Marvin_The_Martian]

Originally Posted by Jarnis

Ah, but what now...?

Will the final Crysis remove the ability to tweak some of the missing shaders back in, or will they be artificially limited to DX10 only? If they remove them, customers will cry foul, and it could even harm the sales of the game. If they leave them in (or even make them officially available), the case for DX10 in Crysis is very weak (potentially pissing off video card manufacturers and Microsoft, who are expecting that Crysis will be the great savior and sell boatload of Vista and DX10 cards for them)

Damned if they do, damned if they don't.

Choose the consumers, choose the consumers choose the consumers!!!!

As in, they pay to play the game, don't think MS is paying them to release a DX10 selling title are they?

[Jarnis]

No, but NVIDIA might be...

[Marvin_The_Martian]

Hehe sponsord game yes I know, idk about how it works in reality thoug, do they get a fixed percentage or something?

Can't imagine a company telling another company to make something exclusive so they can both make money on it.... sarcasm offcourse

How does it work fo real though I really wonder

[snowcrash512]

You would think they would cover their tracks a bit more if its an artificial thing... I mean come on, did they really think the entire gaming community was below the level of copy and paste...