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Old Nov 12, 2012, 01:30 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by eidairaman1 View Post
MS makes me laugh honestly, drivers get broken each Windows version, now making it where DX isnt updated (XP had DX8-DX9C).
Drivers are the manufacturers responsibility as well as MS. Blame them too.

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Hmm... didn't we get this exact same thing a while back with DX10 and XP? I suspect that, desire for backwards-compatibility, and programmer laziness are the three main reasons why that most games are still on DX9.
Wasn't there actual technical reasons for DX10 not making it to XP?
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