Alky Project - Bringing DirectX 10 to Windows XP

Author: Pallab

25 May

You must be aware that Microsoft has made DirectX 10 a Windows Vista exclusive. This is another evil move by Microsoft to force you to buy Windows Vista. Alky Project from Falling Leaf System wants to thwart Microsoft’s plans by porting DirectX 10 first to Windows XP and then to Linux and then OS X. The Alky Project Libraries would act as a proxy to all Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) accessed by a game. It would redirect API requests made by the game to existing platform functionality or custom implementations as needed.

The Alky Project released a preview last month, however they still have a long way to go. As far as I know it still does not work fully with any game. With fairly limited funding and manpower it wouldn’t be an easy task. Another major challenge is making Alky efficient enough to run DirectX 10 games on Windows XP without a degradation in performance. However, Brian Thomason - the 19 year old CEO of Falling Leaf Systems, is confident that Alky Project will be able to run Halo 2 and Shadowrun on Windows Xp soon after their launch.

(via TechnoSpot)

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5 Comments

• At 2007.05.27 15:41, Rohit said:
  

  But won’t it be slower compared the running DX 10 apps natively ?

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• At 2007.05.27 18:47, Pallab said:
  

  It would be slower. As I mentioned in the article, making Alky efficient enough to run DirectX 10 games on Windows XP without a degradation in performance would be challenging.

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• At 2007.05.28 10:31, Affiliate Marketing Forum said:
  

  DirectX10 is back on WindowsXp…a.k.a. Alky Project…

  A move according to Pallab.net by the Alky Project people was to bering back Direct X 10 to the windows Xp, Linux and to the other popular operating systems.

  http://www.pallab.net/uploads/images/s…...

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• At 2007.10.03 16:16, Fahad said:
  

  hi all …
  am loking for a sit i can dawnlod the directx10 and am wondring if it works for my vidocard 6800 nivada nf
  thx for help

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• At 2008.06.08 19:10, Mike G said:
  

  Thank goodness for independent developers that actually use software. Microsoft should just abandon VISTA and support xp til the next iteration. I am hoping to skip VISTA with my xp 64, directx 10 support will definitely increase the feasiblity of that. Anyway just wanted to say thanks the hard work and look forward to me as future customer.

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