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It was my understanding that DX10 was a unique feature of Vista that wouldn't have worked on previous versions of Windows.
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As has already been pointed out, DX10 being Vista-only was a marketing decision, not a technical limitation. I think MS realised that there is no really compelling reason to down^H^H^H^Hupgrade to Vista, so they manufactured one by making DX10 Vista-only.
Unfortunately for them, it has already been demonstrated by third parties that DX10 will work on XP (and maybe other Windows OSes as well?). See here:
http://www.technospot.net/blogs/down...-alky-project/
Or, as AZ suggests (i'm surprised it took this long for the thread to switch to Linux advocacy=-) you could get Linux and run your games under Wine. Apparently some Windows games run faster under Wine than under Windows!
http://appdb.winehq.org/