well then you looked at it more in depth than i did! lol

I dont doubt theres something out there, but it appears that it would be far too complicated, and I do not think it will achieve the results many of these pages (the ones talking about DX10 for XP) boasts.

The one I saw was debunked as showing an actual picture, and then the same picture touched up with some 3d textures to look 'generated' for the old direct x.. hehe

Sure there are. Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, Hellgate: London, BioShock Lost Planet: Extreme Condition, Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts, Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Acceleration, Crysis, World in Conflict, and Gears of War for Windows.

I just copied/pasted that from here.

Microsoft redesigned the graphics architecture for Vista and DirectX 10 was made to compliment it. So running DX10 on XP would be fairly useless and even if it did run, there would be little if any improvement. If anything, I think it'd perform worse.

Well now I understand why those mentioned titles are going nowhere real fast too. (familiar with some of the product lines, never heard of those releases) Oh im sure they are doing ok. Just bites... because honestly using Vista is like downgrading XP.

Indeed. I've tried Vista on my work laptop and went straight back to XP after I couldn't get Visual Studio 2005 to work correctly with my sites. And it slowed my machine down way too much. I doubt we'll ever roll it out to our users. Vista will never see its way onto our home computers. Actually they're lucky I upgraded to XP from 2000 this year.