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I have recently replaced my Video Card with a GTX285....operating on Windows XP with DirectX 9.0C.

Have accessed some blogs on the net discussing the installation of DirectX 10 on XP...(I note that 10 was designed for use in Vista).... and it does appear that "hackers" have adapted the 10 software for use in XP and their downloads are available for download.

Was wondering if anyone has actually installed DirectX10 on their XP....and any comments would be appreciated.

Seasons Greetings to All.

Bob R

Redda03 wrote:

QUOTE (Redda03 @ Dec 27 2009, 10:36 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I have recently replaced my Video Card with a GTX285....operating on Windows XP with DirectX 9.0C.

Have accessed some blogs on the net discussing the installation of DirectX 10 on XP...(I note that 10 was designed for use in Vista).... and it does appear that "hackers" have adapted the 10 software for use in XP and their downloads are available for download.

Was wondering if anyone has actually installed DirectX10 on their XP....and any comments would be appreciated.

Seasons Greetings to All.

Bob R

I ran Vista (now Win7) with FSX and have yet to see any noticeable difference in MSFS running DX10. Worse - many aircraft and scenery textures don't display correctly in DX10 - particularly WOAI aircraft and some older FS9 scenery and aircraft port-overs. So, if it's for FS9 or FSX, I'd say "don't bother".

However - a friend of mine just bought "PT Boats" (WWII) and running it in DX10 mode was much better. Better haze and graduated skies etc. - so if you have other sims/games that make specific use of DX10, then it may still be worth it.

Adamski wrote:

QUOTE (Adamski @ Dec 31 2009, 11:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I ran Vista (now Win7) with FSX and have yet to see any noticeable difference in MSFS running DX10. Worse - many aircraft and scenery textures don't display correctly in DX10 - particularly WOAI aircraft and some older FS9 scenery and aircraft port-overs. So, if it's for FS9 or FSX, I'd say "don't bother".

However - a friend of mine just bought "PT Boats" (WWII) and running it in DX10 mode was much better. Better haze and graduated skies etc. - so if you have other sims/games that make specific use of DX10, then it may still be worth it.

Many thanks for that info....will stay way clear of DirectX10!!

I have discovered thru further research that it's now likely that my CPU could be the bottleneck in FSX with the new GTX285 Video Card fitted....I have an Intel 2 Duo E6850 3.00GHz 4M 1333MHz LGA7775 and I have read that FSX performance is primarily about the CPU/memory and THEN the video card...my FS9 performs great with the the 285....however I see little difference in FSX performance over the 8800 GTS 320mb card.

I have also seen a blog at http://www.simforums.com/forums/forum_post...9156....stating "I have the E6850 overclocked to 3.5G using ntune and it works great"....I have downloaded the nTune software but I am not really sure if I should attempt to "overclock" my CPU....or how to go about it!!!???

Bob R

Redda03 wrote:

QUOTE (Redda03 @ Dec 28 2009, 10:33 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Many thanks for that info....will stay way clear of DirectX10!!

I have discovered thru further research that it's now likely that my CPU could be the bottleneck in FSX with the new GTX285 Video Card fitted....I have an Intel 2 Duo E6850 3.00GHz 4M 1333MHz LGA7775 and I have read that FSX performance is primarily about the CPU/memory and THEN the video card...my FS9 performs great with the the 285....however I see little difference in FSX performance over the 8800 GTS 320mb card.

I have also seen a blog at http://www.simforums.com/forums/forum_post...9156....stating "I have the E6850 overclocked to 3.5G using ntune and it works great"....I have downloaded the nTune software but I am not really sure if I should attempt to "overclock" my CPU....or how to go about it!!!???

What O/S are you using? I upgraded my loathsome Vista to 64-bit Win7. Whilst FSX is definitely NOT 64-bit, the whole system runs *much* faster. FSX itself is faster as well, but then I cleaned it up a lot on re-installing.

Would you be getting rid of that 8800? I have the same card, but my brother's PC is about to die on him (HD errors everywhere) so he'll be up for an upgrade soon.

Adamski wrote:

QUOTE (Adamski @ Jan 1 2010, 10:47 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

What O/S are you using? I upgraded my loathsome Vista to 64-bit Win7. Whilst FSX is definitely NOT 64-bit, the whole system runs *much* faster. FSX itself is faster as well, but then I cleaned it up a lot on re-installing.

Would you be getting rid of that 8800? I have the same card, but my brother's PC is about to die on him (HD errors everywhere) so he'll be up for an upgrade soon.

Windows XP Home 32-Bit
GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS4 LGA775 Motherboard 1333FSB 4 DDR2
2x120mm and 1x80mmCase Fans
SEASONIC M12 700W PSU
Corsair XMS2 2x2GB DDR2-800 SATA II Hard Disk Drive "7200"rpm 16MB cache
XFX GeForce GTX285 PCI Express 2.0 1GB GDDR3

The **00GTS was sold before Xmax to a Palmerston Nth NZFF member !!

Bob R