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Old 10-25-2012, 11:27 AM
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@Nils...


Ataros wrote:

XP is a very old system BF3 does not support it at all i believe.


Bighog wrote:

Well that's great no help for old OS!

I wrote:

sadly, times move on... you might notice Windows 98 and ME aren't catered for either these days.
oh, and 3.1 support fell off years ago, eh


Originally Posted by Troll2k
I believe MS has dumped support for XP.

you wrote:

They did but have a look here
http://www.techmixer.com/download-di...or-windows-xp/

I wrote:

as a sore point opens....

The DirectX 10 shot in your link there, was an officially admitted to "artist conception" of what FSX would like in DX10.
XP support from Microsoft stops in 2014, I believe: http://support.microsoft.com/lifecyc...=en-gb&C2=1173

You wrote:

Dont think so
http://www.techmixer.com/install-dir...rc2-pre-fix-3/




seems MS support for XP was the current (but not completely ot) sub topic
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