The Alky Project from Falling Leaf Systems recently released in Alpha form preview release of DirectX 10 compatible libraries for Windows XP. The project want to save gamers from upgrading to Windows Vista, allowing them to play the latest games on any Windows operating system.

The project plans to build a converter that can take in a DX10 game executable and will produce a modified version that can be run on a (non-Vista) target OS. The libraries will also increase hardware compatibility even on Vista, by compiling Geometry Shaders down to native machine code for execution where hardware isn’t capable of running it.

DirectX 10 Compatibility Libraries are currently in Pre-Alpha stage, You can download the preview from here and can test it out with the DX10 SDK which include samples that users can test out with their DX10 compatible gfx cards.

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