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the technical sycophant might be impressed, but I’m not.
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amazingly, this tiny installer was not only able to install a version of DX10 that had a later version then DX11, but it was also able to do so using a tiny 20 MB installer. This is notable because even my Win7 install identifies my version as 4.
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First, it explicitly set the version number like so: Once the install was done, I had a logfile from that that I opened on this machine (outside the VM) for inspection. I ran the installer, but, while I was running it, I was running Process Monitor to see exactly what it was fiddling with. I of course don’t have XP installed on a machine so I used a trusty VMWare install, and a XP install that I had sitting about. In any case, after a bit of running around (the things I do for a blog post) I finally got the ZIP file for this nonsense. The first step, was, of course to find it. I say it’s time to truly examine this: normally I would dismiss it off-hand for being stupid, but what the heck, I have a few minutes to spare, may as well give it a proper debunking. I even found one that claimed to allow you to play, say, Crysis and Ultra High (which usually required DX10) and, when you ran DXdiag after installation, it said DirectX 10.1, so there is NO way its fake! Instructions say something like “copy to your windows folder, now u have directx10 and your games run faster” There are torrents that claim to have DX10, but half of them are just a few Vista DirectX DLLs zipped up. There are a lot of people, forum posters and the like, vouching for any number of “addon” programs that allow you to install DirectX 10 on your Windows XP PC, even though DX10 is a Vista+ feature.
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