Halo 2

[JoyBoy]

Its called making money!

[Quall999]

The game is coded with Direct3D 10. What's a better way to show it off than to do it using their biggest game franchise?

Vista may only work with a minimal amount of hardware compared to current OS's, but you will also need a $300-$400 gfx card to even play it. If your PC's hardware even supports those cards, chances are that the Manufacturer already has drivers for Vista.

Frankly, Halo 2 isn't enough for me to spend that kind of cash. I would rather buy any of the game consoles than to purchase a card that is almost as much, if not more.

Besides, the company I work with is doing an overhaul, and we are moving to a new floor on a different building this september. Vista will then be pushed out to new hardware. We get Office 2007 in a couple days

[DABhand]

Microsoft are clever a bit. They know people with dodgy XP's will not be able to get DX10 soon, due to the fact you require a legit windows to get any updates etc.

So it will hurt the warez peeps.

Expect other Publishers/Developers to go the same route.

[Joe Forster/STA]

... until an acceptable solution, for circumventing Vista's all copy protections, arises, that is... Knowing how able crackers are and the how high the interest in this issue is, it should happen any time!

[acal3000]

Dodgy Xp or legal Xp it will be the same won't play. Microscrap said DX10 will be only compatible with Vista so I really don't see the difference and for the Vista copy protection I doubt it willbe a great success since crackers always find a way specially in the M$ protections

[daffyduck]

As I heard, I don't know if this is true, M$ will release the DX 9.0L for WinXP. This will allow people to play DX10 games in Windows XP.

[acal3000]

Originally Posted by duffyduck

As I heard, I don't know if this is true, M$ will release the DX 9.0L for WinXP. This will allow people to play DX10 games in Windows XP.

Old and outdated news

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX

taken from wikipedia

"DirectX 9.0 EX[1] Windows Vista Only. Fomerly called 9.0L. Provides DirectX 9 API for Vista. The Inquirer posted an article on October 16, 2006 stating that 9.0L would be DirectX 10 for Windows XP, but later stated that it was a mistake."