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Re:“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022) by Dwedit on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @09:51PM (#35448254)
Direct3D 9.0c
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Re:“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022) by wkat4242 on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @11:30PM (#35448924)
It was also supported on Win2k. For D3D 10 you have a point though.
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Re:“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022) by IntelMiner on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @02:19AM (#35450076)
DirectX 10 required Vista

I remember being gifted Shattered Horizon (a DX10 launch title) and thinking "it really doesn't look that great"

Halo 2 for Vista also required DX10 even though the original Xbox was hardware DX 8.1 only

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