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Directx 8 and later games on what specific OS question?

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First post, by pentiumspeed

Posted on 2019-10-05, 02:49

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From what I can gather is if I have games that are directx 8 or later means no need anything else but use XP OS?

If not there are some early games that supports Directx 8, what about oddball games with directx 9 support that cannot be run on XP for some reason, works best on 98SE? If so, this would means I have to use my P4 with 865 chip set or Athlon cpu with nforce2 motherboard for this?

Thanks and cheers, pentiumspeed.

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Reply 1 of 1, by STX

Posted on 2019-10-27, 13:07

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As far as I know, you're right. You don't need Win9x to run DirectX 8 & 9 games well. Developers were targeting Win2000 and XP in the DirectX 8 & 9 era.

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