News Stormrise is Vista, DirectX 10 only

I know all about the difficulties in converting the DX10 runtime to work in XP, however that should have been kept on the table by M$ after the oh so warm welcome they managed to generate for Vista if they wanted to drive adoption of the new instruction set.

 

They're looking to move forward, not stay in the same place. The next gen OS was already in planning/development so it made more sense to integrate it into that rather than take resources off to put into altering XP to support DX10 and then having a whole slew of support dedicated to the bugs/problems it would create since XP wasn't built to support it.

 

Garry is dumb, my s*** graphic card can play DX8...

 

You're pretty wrong actually, my Dad regularly still plays Steam based games (slowly working through Episode 2 at the moment), and when I tried to install L4D on his PC it barely worked (I'm impressed it worked at all), all because his card doesn't support DX8.