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Just Cause 2 - Incompatible with Windows XP

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Bells and whistles. In some cases, that’s all that separates the (in tech years) eons-old Windows XP from spry upstarts like Windows 7 and, to a lesser extent, Windows Vista. But – like it or not – the bell may be tolling for Windows XP. At least, if you’re a gamer, anyway. Fittingly enough, Just Cause 2, a game about revolutions and, er, parachuting, is leading the charge.

“There is no XP support for Just Cause 2. This is because the game has been written to take advantage of the extra performance offered by Direct X10 and sadly Windows XP does not support that application,” Square Enix Community Manager Mike Oldman told VE3D.

Granted, games like Halo 2 and Shadowrun also gave the cold shoulder to XP for similar reasons, but that was before we were two Windows OSes removed from XP’s heyday. Maybe it’s finally time to move on and let people see what DirectX 10/11 can really do. So, you know, basically the opposite of Halo 2 and Shadowrun.

Just Cause 2 is out on March 23, in case you're interested. Check out the full, not-afraid-to-stick-their-tongues-out-at Windows XP specs for the game through the link.

source : http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/just_cause_2_be_incompatible_windows_xp




wow, i can't wait to try it and buy it, just to support the dev, evem if the game suck
 
There was a reason why Halo 2 and Shadowrun only sold a total of 10 copies or so. Just Cause 2 might be lucky to sell 10 if the first game's sales were any indication.

There's no technology reason these games can't run on XP. It's just a developer decision and bugetary constraints and general laziness. If you look at a pie chart of all the current installed OS'es, XP is still by far the biggest part of that pie.

I'm not saying that Win 7 won't eventually be the biggest part, but I am saying that the people that wrote Just Cause 2 made a bad decision not to support to most popular OS on Earth and then tried to blame it on "extra performance offered by Direct X 10".
 
If my copy of XP 64 was a dog, I would have it put to sleep. Win 7 has removed all of the driver issues and makes a much better OS. Time to move on XPers.
 
MT Alex said:
If my copy of XP 64 was a dog, I would have it put to sleep. Win 7 has removed all of the driver issues and makes a much better OS. Time to move on XPers.
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XP 64 was a dog. Common knowledge. 32 bit XP is rock solid. No need to move on yet.
 
shoot it!
 
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