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Windows XP SP2 and SP3*, Windows Server 2003 SP1 and Windows Server 2003 R2 December 8, 2006 Last version supporting Windows 98, 98 SE and Me [a] February 5, 2010 Last version supporting Windows 2000, XP and XP SP1 June 7, 2010 Final 9.0c version Last version supporting Windows XP SP2 and SP3 [85] 10 10: 6.00.6000.16386: November 30, 2006
DirectX 9.0c (Shader Model 3.0) was introduced. A File System Filter Manager and minifilter drivers were installed. [161] Compared to the legacy file system filters, they are easier to develop, offer better stability and can be loaded and unloaded at any time. [162] They reduce recursive I/O on the kernel stack and can process only necessary ...
Several Windows XP components are upgradable to the latest versions, which include new versions introduced in later versions of Windows, and other major Microsoft applications are available. These latest versions for Windows XP include: ActiveSync 4.5; DirectX 9.0c (June 7, 2010, Redistributable) Internet Explorer 8
9.0c (Oct 2006) (optional) It is possible to install the MS-DOS variants 7.0 and 7.1 without the graphics user interface of Windows. If an independent installation of both, DOS and Windows is desired, DOS ought to be installed prior to Windows, at the start of a small partition.
As an example, I'm currently trying to find out wich sound cards are compatible to DirectX 9.0c , since I'm still using my PC on which Windows XP runs on. As a result, I cannot use sound card which use DirectX 10 or 11.
Windows XP and earlier are not supported by DirectX 10.0 and above. Furthermore, Direct3D 10 dropped support for the retained mode API which had been a part of Direct3D since the beginning, making Windows Vista incompatible with 3D games that had used the retained mode API as their rendering engine. [43]
The last version of DirectX that was released for Windows 2000 was DirectX 9.0c (Shader Model 3.0), which shipped with Windows XP Service Pack 2. Microsoft published quarterly updates to DirectX 9.0c through the February 2010 release after which support was dropped in the June 2010 SDK.
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